Ray Shepherd, 65, of Sweet Home, died Dec. 6, 2009 after a 17-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.
He was born in Portland to James Vernon and Florence Rosanne (Welshons) Shepherd. He was raised in Brownsville and graduated from Central Linn High School.
Mr. Shepherd was an accomplished industrial electrician who worked at the innovative Woodex alternative fuel plant in Brownsville before moving to Irrigon in the mid-1980s.
He was employed there by a leading agribusiness,…