Services for Fred Douglas Shields will be at 11 a.m. Friday at W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home with the Rev. Herman Sylvester officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 6:30 tonight at the funeral home.

Mr. Shields died Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, at his home. He was 89.

He was retired from Waterways Experiment Station and was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was a member of Pleasant Green M.B. Church, where he was a senior deacon and served as Sunday school superintendent.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Fred R. and Priscilla Shields; and two sisters, Velma Chavalier and Mamie Proctor.

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Alyce Shields; three sons, Dorwin Shields of Vicksburg, Robert Shields of Jackson and Mikhail Abdulbaaqee of Atlanta; a sister, Willie Bell Gibson of Detroit; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.