Michelle Shields

Michelle Shields, age 54, passed away Tuesday evening, August 12, 2025 at her home in Sardis, MS.

Funeral services for Michelle will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, August 18, 2025 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the interment to follow at Forrest Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the funeral service.

Michelle was born on March 28, 1971 to the late Alvin Shields and IlaRee King Shields in Memphis, Tennessee. Her kindness and loving personality were shown through her love for children, her family, her dog “Buddy”, her sweet friend, Ms. Ann, and her beloved niece, Lynnsey.

Michelle enjoyed coloring, word searches, flowers, and listening to old school music.

Those left behind to cherish her precious memory include her siblings, Kathy Shields of Batesville, MS, and Joyce Shields Brown of Sardis, MS, Terry Shields of Courtland, MS, and Dennis Grant of Crowder, MS; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Along with her parents, she is preceded in death by 11 siblings, Debbie Fletcher, Mary Ann Shields Kuehl, Leslie Allen “Frog” Shields, Ricky Wayne Shields, Harvey Shields, Anthony Shields, Ardis Shields, JC Shields, James Robert Shields, Thomas Grant, and Wayne Grant.