Child Saved From Drowning (55 Years Ago)

Midge McClenon, who is a Shields relative (Lothar Fieg Sr. married Florence Shields, Midge's aunt), sent this in an e-mail last July.  It is lightly edited, but a fascinating read!

Someone (maybe Greg Fieg...) told me about the time he went swimming - intentionally or not - at a Shields Reunion in Corbett. He got into water over his head and couldn't swim. He said he had no idea who pulled him out - some man - and he went running to Grandma. The man who pulled him out was " young" Tom Hoppey, not to be confused with his father, also named Tom Hoppey, who is Irene Shields Hoppey's husband. "Young" Tom is their son. Irene is the daughter of David and Kate (Haas) Shields. David is Florence Shields Fieg's uncle - just in case you can't follow the lineage any better than I can. I have to have the genealogy in hand!


.... I thought it quite a coincidence that Michele (VanPelt) would bring it up in a conversation at the reunion last Sunday. I had intended to ask if anyone remembered that happening but it had slipped my mind until I heard her talking to Ken Shields about it. Oh, that Ken Shields is not Irene's brother! I'm beginning to wish there were a law against naming children after ancestors! If you have the opportunity, pass the information along to Greg. If it wasn't Greg maybe it was Steven - I've had several e-mails from him.

Maybe we should offer swimming lessons at the Fieg reunion in August!