John Phillip Shepherd

April 24, 1949 - January 11, 2018

John "Phil" Shepherd, 68, of Yuba City, passed away in his Sutter Estates home on January 11, 2018. He was born April 24, 1949, in Vallejo, California. Phil graduated from Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1967. After high school he moved to Fairfield, California, where he met and married his first wife Margaret in 1970. He lived all over Northern California, including North Highlands, Forbestown and Marysville. In 1984 he married his second wife Sandy, and lived with her in Sutter, California, until her death in February 2012. Phil is preceded in death by his father, Monroe Shepherd; mother, Phyllis Walden; stepfather, Junior Walden; brother, Allen Walden; wife, Sandra Brubaker Shepherd; and stepson, Richard Pippen. He is survived by his daughters Pamela Shepherd of Vacaville; Cheryl (Michael) Johannessen of Elmira; Stephanie Shepherd of Vacaville; stepdaughter, Deborah Pippen (Gregory) Stangl of San Francisco; grandchildren, Curtis, Austin and Colton Reed of Elmira; Cody and Jesse Schroeder of Vacaville; Even, Meyer and Linden Stangl of San Francisco; and several aunts, uncles and cousins. Services will be held Saturday, January 27, 2018, at 11:00 am at Holycross Memorial, 486 Bridge Street, Yuba City, California.