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Jacob Nathaniel Sheperd
Jacob Nathaniel Shepherd, Jr. was born in 1923 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The family’s membership and participation in activities at First Lutheran Church led him to develop a deep and lasting ...view moreJacob Nathaniel Shepherd, Jr. was born in 1923 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The family’s membership and participation in activities at First Lutheran Church led him to develop a deep and lasting love for Jesus.
He graduated from Greensboro Senior High School at the age of fifteen. As captain and pilot of a B-17 bomber, he flew twenty-five combat missions over Germany. He received an engineering degree from North Carolina State and retired from Blue Bell, Inc. as a corporate vice-president.
He was happily married for forty-seven years to the mother of his seven children, which ended tragically when she died from lung cancer. He remarried in 2005 to a widow whom he met in a church program. They reside in Winnabow, North Carolina.
His poetic endeavors began in 2005, when he wrote a poem as a stewardship message for his church. This first poem became a hymn and is included in his book under the title, “I Have a Friend in Heaven!”view less