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Barrios:JoseHernandez Barrios, 92, of Red Bluff died Thursday, Sept. 15at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Deathnoticesmustbe provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Deathnotices PHOTOS BY JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Tehama County Public Works employee Nichole Beth- urem, center, was honored Tuesday at the Tehama County Board of Supervisors for 10 years of services. Supervisor Dennis Garton, le , presented a certifi- cate of recognition and Public Works Director Gary Antone, right, introduced Bethurem. Tehama County Facilities Maintenance employee Paul Quinn, center, was honored at the Tehama County Board of Supervi- sors for 35 years of services. Supervisor Burt Bundy, le , presented a certificate of recognition and Facilities Maintenance Director Russ Skelton, right, introduced Quinn. weregoingtouseforcoun- ter offensive. We were told to hold it at all cost. The Germans completely sur- rounded us and with the bad weather there was no way for air support until it broke. We fought the Ger- mans day and night. We did what we had to do. I imagine the Germans were told to take it at all cost." Just about six months earlier, the men of the 101st had been sent in ahead of the D-Day inva- sion hours after having a picture taken with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower that many have seen. The pic- ture was taken after the general addressed the 101st the day before the D-Day invasion, Shep- herd said. "Eisenhower did a won- derful job on that inva- sion," Shepherd said. "He let word get to the Ger- man intelligence that we were going to invade Nor- way instead of Normandy. He sent thousands of me- chanical paratroopers into Norway. What that did was that moved thou- sands of German soldiers out and made it possible to invade there. We para- chuted in the night be- fore behind enemy lines and secured the bridges." During the address, Eisenhower told the men they had been training a long time and the officers had tried to keep them out of trouble just for that mission, Shepherd said. What they did next was just follow his orders. "He said 'the success of D-Day depends on the determination of the air- borne troops,'" Shepherd said. "When you boys get over there, I want you to tear up every God damn thing you find. If you can't tear it up, piss on it.' We were there about four hours before the invasion to clear the way." Born in the small town of Soper, Oklahoma in 1925, Shepherd's love of country was so great he said he left home in 1942 and lied about his age to get into the military. He served until 1946 with his last tour of duty being a position as a parole officer at Leavenworth, Kansas. "They were draft- ing 18-year-olds into the Army at the time," Shep- herd said. "I got to watch- ing the news and saw they weren't getting it done so I decided I had to get over there and get it done. I lied about my age so I went in at 17 and was 18 by the time we got into Normandy." Shepherd and his wife Prentice moved to Cotton- wood where they bought a ranch, eventually mov- ing to Benson Road with their three children Bob, Carole (Moore) and Mary (VanDyke) in 1961. There they raised cattle, pigs, chickens and horses un- til about 1968 when they moved into town, buying a place in Red Bluff. "Carl has been in the news lately and it seemed an appropriate occasion to recognize a war hero," Nielsen said. "So many like him came from a small town to fight a big war. A world war. Those folks are humble and what he has done was a cut above many. He fought in not just two of the great- est battles of World War II, but history. What hap- pened at D-Day and Bat- tle of the Bulge is relevant today." The Battle of the Bulge was Adolph Hitler's last ditch effort and Shep- herd and his fellow sol- diers' commitment was to hold the line at all cost, Nielsen said. "Because of you, we and Carl's great-grand- son here have freedom," Nielsen said. "We gather here to thank him and it is a privilege to recog- nize him as special and a cut above many. You have made a difference to many generations. You are a hero." Veteran FROM PAGE 1 Alternative To Violence has done for the community. Parker encouraged all community members to support and participate in awareness events and ac- tivities planned by Alter- natives to Violence, the lo- cal domestic violence as- sistance and prevention program, work together to end domestic violence and make clear to perpetrators of domestic abuse that fam- ily violence will not be toler- ated in the community. For more information on Alternatives to Violence or to purchase tickets to the Trivia Night, visit http:// www.atvrb.org. Single tick- ets are $20 and a table of eight is $120. Awareness FROM PAGE 1 inside and construct con- ference rooms, staff rooms, a community room, a teen space room and an archives room. An entry plaza will be constructed in the front of the building and eventu- ally an outdoor quad will be in front. With demolition com- plete workers will move on to preparing concrete masonry units or the block walls for the structure of the building. Walls have been re- moved in some places on the side of the build- ing to make way for the large windows that will add light and make the li- brary more pleasurable, Sisneros said. According to the plans approved by the Tehama County Board of Super- visors on March 1, the in- terior of the building will see a service desk down the center so employees have a direct site line with the entrance and each sec- tion to allow staff to en- gage with all areas of the library. A virtual tour of the planned facility can be viewed at https:// w w w .y o u t u b e . c o m / watch?v=80b6704O4Kk. The project is estimated to cost $6.7 million. Much of the funding for the project has come from the county with $4 million set aside for the project. Other funding has come in the form of do- nations from many compa- nies and foundations, both local and from nearby coun- ties. The McConnell Founda- tion, the mission of which is to help build better com- munities, has donated $500,000 to the project. Librarian Sally Ain- sworth, with the Tehama County Friends of the Li- brary, has raised more than $845,000 as of July through community fundraisers and donations. A golf tournament is set for Oct. 22 at Wilcox Oaks Golf Club, hosted by the Friends of the Library. The group pledges to match do- nations raised at the event up to $100,000. An "I Scream Social" will be held 1-6 p.m. Satur- day with proceeds going for the construction of the new library. Donated to the project was wood from the former Riverside Bar and Grill, which has since been torn down. Those interested in do- nating can call Ainsworth at 527-0604. Library FROM PAGE 1 HEATHER HOELSCHER — DAILY NEWS Construction is underway at the former Daily News building, making way for the new Tehama County Library. Pictured here is where the Teen Space room will be located, formerly a part of the press room. Col. Danielle Barnes, a senior officer who over- sees base operations, said military personnel recov- ering the two pilots found that both their parachutes had deployed. She said she could not discuss what went caused the plane to crash or Eadie's death. There's no timeline for investigators to conclude their probe. "They will take as long as they need to execute a thor- ough and detailed investiga- tion," Barnes said. The Air Force said the plane was conducting a trainingmissiononaroutine flight path before something wentwrongandthehigh-fly- ing aircraft slammed into a mountainous area about 20 miles west of the runway. Photos from the scene showed sections of the tail and wing splayed on the mountainside, with much of the aircraft charred and disintegrated. The crash sparked a fire on the grassy terrain, which was quickly extinguished. The U-2 "Dragon Lady" is a surveillance and recon- naissance plane capable of flying above 70,000 feet (21,336meters),anextremely high altitude that's twice as high asatypicalcommercial airliner flies. Developed dur- ing the Cold War to spy on the Soviet Union, the single- engine aircraft now carries high-resolutioncamerasand sensors to gather radio sig- nals and other information useful to intelligence agen- cies and battlefield com- manders. Pilots wear pressurized suits like those used by as- tronauts to survive in the low-pressure, low-oxygen environment in the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Before the crash, the Air Force said it had 33 U-2s. Most are a single-seat air- craft, but five — including the one that crashed Tues- day —were a two-seat ver- sion used for training pi- lots to fly the specialized plane. Built by the defense contractor Lockheed Mar- tin Corp, the U-2 fleet is based at Beale, with some planes flying missions from air bases around the world. There have been a hand- ful of crashes since the U-2 began flying in the 1950s. The Soviet Union shot down a U-2 and captured pilot Frances Gary Powers in 1960. Powers was impris- oned for two years before being released in a prisoner exchange. Crash FROM PAGE 1 HECTOR AMEZCUA — THE SACRAMENTO BEE VIA AP An aircra on a training mission, assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance squadron at Beale Air Force Base, went down on the lower slopes of the Sutter Buttes on Tuesday in Sutter County. The U.S. Air Force says one pilot was kille, and one was injured a er they ejected from the plane. RICH PEDRONCELLI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Colonel Larry Broadwell, commander of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and Beale Air Force base, near Marysville, discusses the crash of a U-2spy plane Tuesday. 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