Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Shields, Ernest N. 1964
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 18 Jun 1964

Ernest N. Shields, 67, of route two, died Wednesday at veterans hospital in
Saginaw where he was a patient two days.  A veteran of World War I, he was
injured when the home troop ship Tuscania was torpedoed.

He was born in Rapid City February 27, 1897, son of Neil and Alice Russell
Shields, and was married February 6, 1919 to Ethel Hendrick.  They had resided
in Ionia 45 years.

Mr. Shields was employed 20 years by Weber Electric company and worked for
Consumers Power and Ionia Manufacturing company, retiring two years ago.

Surviving are his wife, Ethel; three sons, Douglas, Donald and Ernest of Ionia;
16 grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Stuart Graham of Charlotte, Mrs. Walter
Cronkright of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Harold Fletcher of Traverse City and Mrs.
Lottie Ostrander of Lake City.  A daughter, Mrs. Irene Dumont, preceded him in
death in 1941.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m., Saturday at Myers funeral home with burial at
Balcom cemetery.


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