Tuesday, August 13, 1929 



tm BOSTON HERALD 



TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929 



Deaths 



Mrs. George Sheffield Dies; 

 Aided Cambridge Charities 



Mrs. George Sheffleid (Gertrude Parker) 

 who died on Monday at the hotel in 

 Gloucester where she has passed the last 

 few summers was the daughter of .the 

 late Hon. Joel Parker, formerly chief Jus- 

 tice of New Hampshire and later Royall 

 professor In the Harvard Law School 

 and of the late Mrs. Mary M. Parker ' 



Mrs. Sheffleid wa.s born in Cambridg-o 

 to which her parent.s had moved a few 

 years before and where she had lived all 

 her life Early lea a widow, and having 

 no children, she idontltied herself with 

 ■^liarltable work In her native city and 

 vas for many years one of the trustees 

 of the Avon Home and active in Its work 

 and in that of the Shepard Congregational 

 Church of Cambridge, with wliicli her 

 parents had long been associated 



Mrs. Sheffield la survived by a brother 

 Edmund M. Parker of Boston. 



