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Arnold T. Shields - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, June 9, 1967

Funeral Services Held Thursday In Lake Providence For Arnold T. Shields; Was Very Well Known Here

Funeral services for Arnold T. Shields were conducted at 10:00 A. M. on Thursday, June 8, 1967, 
from Grace Episcopal Church, Lake Providence, Louisiana under the direction of Crothers Funeral 
Home, with the Rev. Keith Riggs and the Rev. Joseph C. Harrison officiating. Interment was held 
in the Lake Providence Cemetery.

Mr. Shields died at 12:15 P. M. on June 7, 1967 after a brief illness. He was born in Bastrop, 
Louisiana on July 7, 1893, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shields of Bastrop, Louisiana.

From 1940 to 1962, Mr. Shields was member of the Fifth Louisiana Levee Board, serving as President 
of this Board from 1944 to 1962. He twice served as President of the Association of Levee Boards 
of Louisiana, and in addition served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Lower Mississippi 
Valley Flood Control Association. In 1963 Mr. Shields was honored by the Lower Mississippi Valley 
Flood Control Association when he was made an honorary lifetime member of this Association in 
recognition of his devoted service to the cause of flood control.

Mr. Shields was elected to the Board of the Tallulah Production Credit Association January 7, 1946 
and served as Vice-President of this Association until 196,. at which time he was elected President. 
Since 1946 he has served as a member of the Executive Committee. Also, Mr. Shields served as a Vice 
President of the Tallulah Finance Company.

During World War I, he served in the United States Navy. Upon release from the Armed Forces, Mr. Shields 
went to Washington, D. C. as private secretary to Congressman B. G. Humphreys of Mississippi. In 1929 
he purchased Ridgeland Plantation in East Carroll Parish where he operated his farming interests 
until ten years ago when he retired.

Mr. Shields was a member of Grace Episcopal Church of Lake Providence before moving to Tallulah, 
Louisiana in March of this year at which time he transferred his membership to Trinity Episcopal 
Church in Tallulah.

Mr. Shields is survived by his widow, Mrs. Josephine King Shields, an aunt, Mrs. L. E. Bentley of 
Bastrop, Louisiana, and several cousins, Mr. Llewelyn Bentley of Bastrop; Mrs. Agnes Shields Adams 
and Mrs. Carrol R. Regan of Tallulah; Mrs. John Weimar of Baton Rouge; Mrs. Warren Taylor of Monroe; 
and Mrs. Maude Leigh Taylor, Mrs. Dick Sadler, Mrs. Louise Prosser, Mrs. Dorothy Sims, 
all of Alexandria, Louisiana.

Pall Bearers were C. B. DeMoss, Maurice Ursery, Ted Ivy, H. C. Sevier, Jr., A. L. Sevier, Jr., David Harvey 
and Carroll Regan.

The family has requested that those wishing to send flowers instead make a contribution in memory of 
Mr. Shields to Grace Episcopal Church, Lake Providence, or Trinity Episcopal Church, Tallulah, Louisiana.