Family of Dr Roy Sheppard Minerd & Nell Gertrude Penn (Minerd)

Roy and Nell were married in a religious & civil ceremony in February 1913.¹

Marriage/Union Notes
- http://www.minerd.com/bio-minerd,_roysheppard.htm
  
  less than two weeks after the reunion, on Sept. 2, 1913, he and Nell were married. A month after marriage, they left for Philadelphia, where he enrolled in the Department of Medicine at the Medico-Chirurgical College (now the University of Pennsylvania).

They had two sons named Penn and Bob.

Family Notes
- http://www.minerd.com/bio-minerd,_roysheppard.htm
  
  Son and daughter in law Penn and Jane (Sage) Minerd are pictured in Linwood Parks Shipley's 1971 book, The Shipleys of Maryland.
  
  Grandson Douglas Edwin Minerd formerly was director of entertainment at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, and has his own music label, Minerd Music Works. In 2003, he accepted a position as Vice President of Entertainment at Sea World in San Antonio, TX. In 2005, he became Vice President of Entertainment at Sea World in San Diego, CA, where he often is quoted in stories in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
  
  Grandson Russell C. Minerd received a United States patent in 1982 for his invention for musical instrument device used for "remote-controlled key-depressing."
  
  Granddaughter Cynthia Moringiello spent several years as a teacher in Alaska, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. She later 'switched' careers and became a top switching craftsman with New York Telephone (Ma Bell), retiring in 2001 from Verizon. Her husband, Daniel Moringiello, was a longtime engineer with the Long Island Railroad, with 31 years of distinguished service prior to retirement.
  
  Granddaughter Barbara Minerd serves on the visual communications adjunct faculty of Farmingdale State University of New York. In the fall of 2001 and 2002, she displayed a selection of her drawings in faculty exhibitions on campus.

Personal Details
- Dr Roy Sheppard Minerd
  
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  Roy was born on March 15th, 1885 in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.¹ He died at the age of 77 on June 6th, 1962. He was cremation in Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.¹¹
  - Death Notes
    - http://www.minerd.com/bio-minerd,_roysheppard.htm
      
      Sadly, Nell died on Feb. 20, 1961. Roy passed away a year later, at age 77, on June 6, 1962. Their ashes are buried in the Penn family plot at Hill Grove Cemetery in Connellsville, PA.
  Nell Gertrude Penn (Minerd)
  Nell was born about 1887 in Pennsylvania, USA.² She died on February 20th, 1961. She was cremation in Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.¹¹
  - Death Notes
    - http://www.minerd.com/bio-minerd,_roysheppard.htm
      
      Sadly, Nell died on Feb. 20, 1961. Roy passed away a year later, at age 77, on June 6, 1962. Their ashes are buried in the Penn family plot at Hill Grove Cemetery in Connellsville, PA.

Children
- Roy “Penn” Minerd
  Roy, known as Penn, was born about June 18th, 1915 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA.³
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    Social Security Death Index Record
    
    18 Jun 1915
    
    28 Jan 1997 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States of America
  He died on January 28th, 1997 in Citrus Memorial Hospital, Inverness, Florida, USA. He was cremation at the Riverside Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA.³
  - Death Notes
    
    http://trees.ancestry.com
    
    Obituary
    chrisminerd added this on 27 Dec 2007
    
    R. Penn Minerd, a retired teacher of instrumental music on Long Island, died Jan. 28 at Citrus Memorial Hospital in Inverness, Fla., after a long illness. He was 81.
    
    A Huntington resident for 40 years, Mr. Minerd was born in Philadelphia, graduated from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania and earned a master's degree in music at Penn State University. He taught instrumental music both privately and in public schools for nearly four decades before retiring in 1977 from the Lloyd Harbor School.
    
    During his 28 years at the Lloyd Harbor School, his band played frequently at the Jones Beach band shell. In 1964, his elementary school band performed at the New York World's Fair.
    
    Mr. Minerd served on the original board of the Huntington Symphony, forerunner of the Long Island Philharmonic. He enjoyed playing violin in the Senior Pops Orchestra after retiring. A World War II veteran, he was a member of the Patrol Craft Sailors Association and a lifetime member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
    
    He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Jane; two daughters, Cynthia Moringiello of Ronkonkoma and Barbara Jane Minerd of Smithtown; and a brother, Robert, of Scarsdale.
    
    Mr. Minerd's ashes will be interred in June at Riverside Cemetery in Rochester. A memorial service will be scheduled soon.
    
    Contributions may be sent to the Mansfield University Foundation, Mansfield, Pa. 16933.
  Robert Edwin “Bob” Minerd
  Robert, known as Bob, was born on February 22nd, 1923 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA.⁴
  - Birth Notes
    
    http://trees.ancestry.com
    
    The son of a country physi-cian/organist and school teacher, Bob was born in Erie, Pa., in 1923
  He died at the age of 82 on March 3rd, 2005 in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia, USA. The funeral was arranged by Hill and Wood Funeral Home.³³

Dr Roy Sheppard Minerd & Nell Gertrude Penn (Minerd)

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