many happy hours roaring around Charleston Lake in
his 1941 Chris Craft named After Taxes. Predeceased
by a son, Justice Sexton was survived by his wife of forty
one years, Rosemary, and four other children.
John E. Shannon Jr., ’83, was ninety-two when he
passed on October 4, 2019. Jack served as a radioman
on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II. After
the War, Jack returned to the University of Wisconsin
for undergrad and law school. Jack was a community
leader and served on the Stevens Point City Council for
two terms. He helped found the American Legion Baseball
Program in Stevens Point, serving as its first President
and helping bring the American Legion World Series
to the City in 1987. Jack was preceded in death by
his wife, Josette, and survived by his four children, eight
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Glenn Lee Sharratt, ’82, passed on April 28, 2020
at age ninety-six. Glenn served in the U.S. Air Force
during WWII, and continued in the USAF Reserve, retiring
in 1984 as a Lt. Colonel. Glenn married Lora
Jane Frank in August 1950. She preceded him in death
in 2008, in the fifty-ninth year of their marriage. Following
the War, Glenn attended the University of Wisconsin,
where he received a B.A. in 1949 and a law
degree in 1951. Glenn retired from active practice in
1988, and he and Jane enjoyed travel to New Zealand,
Portugal and Vienna. Glenn was survived by his two
children, two grandsons and two great-grandsons.
William “Bill” Sheppard, ’99, passed away on April
9, 2022 at his home, age eighty. Bill was raised on a
ranch in Burns, Oregon for the first sixteen years of
his life. His family relocated to Orlando and Bill graduated
from Florida State University, where he earned
an ROTC Commission; After graduation, Bill served
in the U.S. Army for two years in Korea. Upon his return,
Bill attended the University of Florida College
of Law, where he was the Executive Editor of the Law
Review. Bill practiced law in Jacksonville for fifty-three
years as one of the nation’s preeminent civil rights and
criminal attorneys. His cases legalized same-sex marriage
in Florida, led to a federal takeover of state prisons,
sparked the construction of a less crowded county
jail and forced the city into a consent decree over its
discriPination aJainst %OacN ¿re¿Jhters At one point
while representing inmates suing over the Duval County
jail’s inhumane conditions, Bill’s law office was riddled
Charles Milton Shaffer, Jr., ’86, was seventy-nine
when he died on March 18, 2021. Charlie attended the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill on a football
scholarship, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa
and was elected class president his junior and senior
years. Despite a knee injury that ended his football career,
he became co-captain of the varsity basketball and
tennis teams and played during Coach Dean Smith’s
first three basketball seasons. During college, Charlie
met and fell in love with Harriet Hayne Houston; they
were married in 1964. He graduated from the UNC
School of Law in 1967, where he was also the assistant
freshman basketball coach for three years. Charlie and
Harriet moved to Atlanta where he enjoyed a thirtyfive
year career before accepting the position of president
and CEO of The Marcus Institute, a center for
children with developmental disabilities. Charlie was a
President of the Atlanta Bar Association. His passion
for athletics and community service led Charlie to take
on numerous other leadership roles. He was a member
of the “Atlanta Nine” which brought the 1996 Summer
Olympics to Atlanta. He also served as president of the
Atlanta Sports Council from 1996-2000, leading a successful
bid that brought the Super Bowl to Atlanta in
2000. Seven years later, he participated in the successful
effort for Atlanta to host the Men’s Final Four Tournament
in 2007. Charlie was survived by Harriet, their
three children, and nine grandchildren.
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