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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Aptos><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Greetings, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Don Shepherd Sent the below information to us. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Pat Shepherd, my ex-wife, and former chapter member died Sunday at Perry Lutheran Home. We will suggest donations to NFB with her obit. It will be a private funeral.</span></font><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Aptos><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Pat was a staff member of the Iowa Commission For The Blind in the seventies where she met Don who was teaching over in Davenport. They were involved in the Federation at the state level for a few years before they moved to Des Moines in the eighties and joined the Des Moines Chapter. Pat remained active in the chapter until she was moved to the care facility in Perry many years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Don and his daughter’s family for their loss.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Bob Ray<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></body></html>