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James F Shields    April 22,1916-July 16,1974
Dorothy & James Shields in Delmar (probable 1960s)	Martin J Shields Jr. & James Shields (May 1950)
James Shields was born on  April 22nd 1916. Uncle Jim married Dorothy Congdon whose family owned City Ice & Fuel. His Mother's sister Sarah was the office manager. The Congdons were a well to do family from Cincinnati.  He gave my mother away at her wedding in 1951 (Since their father had been dead for 9 years) Jim and Dorothy had one child Guy who was named after her father. Jim was a good salesman for a national company but when his territory was given to one his boss's relatives and he was reassigned to the Plattsburg territory he got himself transferred to Florida. He died July 16th 1974. His brother Martin was visiting me in Vallejo, California at the time. When I told him of Jim's death he said he expected it. Jim lived how he wanted and didn't modify his life style to extend his life as he grew older. (Although  Junnie was usually a cynic when it came to his siblings,  Jim died young at 58, a year younger than his father and four years younger than his sister Dot who died at 62 a year after he did)
James & Dorothy Shields in Florida (1966))	Guy Shields, Louie & MaryAnn Lenzenhuber early 1960s?
I visited them in Florida in the winter of 1971. When I rang the bell Dot yelled to Jim "There's a hippy at the door" to which Jim replied "That's just Louie". My first night there they had a steak dinner and asked me if I wanted ketchup. I told them I only put ketchup on things I didn't like. The second night we had meat loaf and I didn't say anything except ask for ketchup. I got to the Kennedy Space Center but Disney World didn't open until 1972.
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