Mrs. John Shields led a model life. The Wilton's womans death is mourned by many loved ones. The funeral of Mrs. John Shields of Wilton took place from the Catholic Church to the family resting place at Wilmington, May 26. Father Hurley officiated, assisted by Fathers McGee of Manhatten, Father McNamee of Chicago and Father Wells of Wilmington. The pall bearers were made up of relatives including M. McGowan of Nebraska, son-in-law E. Cushing of Wilmington, brother-in-laws E. Keigher and W Rodgers. The departure of Mrs. Shields brings to a close a beautiful and useful life of seventy-three years. She first saw the light of day in County Limerick, Ireland. At the age of 7 she crossed the oean with her parents and settled in Albany, N.Y. The death of her mother, when Anna Reeves, the future Mrs. Shields was but a girl, placed her in charge of three younger sisters and two brothers. She accompanied her father to Chicago, thence to Joliet and finally to Wilmington where she became the wife of John Shields of Wilton. Her life of over 50 years in Wilton as a wife, a mother and a truly christian woman, was a model at all times. No seculded religious ever led a more methodical life inside a convent walls than did Mrs. Shields in the midst of her family of eleven on her farm at Wilton. A time for everything and everything at its proper time would be the history of her life, in a nutshell, both in regard to her temporal and religious affairs. Mother says (in other cases) we hardly know the spiritual side of life was allowed to suffer in the anxiety over worldly affairs. But this was not so with Mrs. Shields. In her devotion to duty the eternal was always first. She loved to teach her eleven children the impropriety of waste in material affairs and the necessity of provision for the rainy day, but cultivation of spiritual things and an advancement in virtue was nearest to her heart. She worked very hard but she prayed just as hard. Her husband preceeded her to the place of his resurrection 17 years. Before his death and during the years of her widowhood, her devotion to duty was rewarded by occasional addition to the family property. Its present dimensions are among the largest in Wilton. She died full of years and possessed of much of the worlds goods and last and best of all, full of the grace of God. At least so it would seem from her attachment during life to the Church of Christ and her constant attention to things spiritual may she rest in peace and may her example so noble to be followed and imitated.