Funeral services for Tonja Evette Shields are to be held on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 1 p.m. in the chapel of W H Jefferson Funeral Home with the Rev. Malcom Goodman officiating; interment will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

There will be a visitation held on Friday, Feb. 8, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the funeral home.

Tonja E. Shields passed away on Jan. 12, in Vallejo, California, following a brief illness. She was 49.

She is survived by her mother, Sharon Malcom, and her brother, Derrick Shields, both of Vallejo, California.