Susan Shepherd

Other names: 
Her maiden name was Laird.
Dates: 
22 Jan 1943 - 28 Feb 2014

Susan Laird was born 22 January 1943 in Culloden, by Inverness, where her father was stationed with the R.A.F. During the war, her mother and she and her older brother moved to Balmedie (Aberdeenshire) to live with her grandmother. When her father returned after the war, they moved to 248 Hilton Drive, Aberdeen.

Susan attended Woodside School and Woodside Parish Church. She moved on to Hilton Academy, and thereafter gained a place at Aberdeen Academy. After leaving school she went to the teachers training college to become an infant teacher. Her first school was at Easthall primary in Easterhouse. In 1966 she married Baird Shepherd in Woodside Parish Church, Aberdeen. She taught at Smithfield Primary School for ten years, leaving when her son Gregor was born.

Susan Shepherd had a life-long connection to the church, including Sunday School, Youth Fellowship Concert Party, and eventually a Sunday School teacher.

Susan died on the 28th February 2014. Her funeral ceremony was also at Woodside Parish Church.

Her husband refurbished the lane down the side of the church which was Susan’s path to the shops in Woodside.

Sources
Information supplied by her husband, Baird Shepherd.