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On May 31, 2007 SHEILA MASON RICKS. Funeral Services will be held at 10 A.M. at Estep Brothers, 1300 Eutaw Pl. on Thursday, June 7, 2007. Interment at Western Cemetery, following services.

Sheila Dixon would be more credible if she was competing for ratings with Honey Boo-Boo or The Real Housewives of whatever. Is Baltimore so desperate for national attention that someone of her ilk has to be trotted out once again to run for mayor ("Dixon plans decision on return to politics," March 27)? Should Ms. Dixon be somehow re-elected to office, it will at least keep furriers and makers of Jimmy Choo shoes busy. B. Mobley, Gwynn Oak Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

On March 28, 2005, SHEILA. Visitation at 2140 N. Fulton Ave. on Fri. 2-8pm. The family will receive friends at Grace Bible Baptist Church, 1518 N. Rolling Road, on Saturday at 10am. Funeral at 11am.

Former Mayor Sheila Dixon's city pension deal rankled many in 2010 - even sparking a small protest outside City Hall - but she did not get a free pass after being found guilty of embezzlement and perjury charges. To keep her $83,000 a year payout, Dixon had to donate $45,000 to charity, do 500 hours of community service and not seek office. Last week, Dixon was charged with a probation violation after falling almost $14,000 behind on the required payments, according to state records.

On April 18, 2006, SHEILA. Friends may call MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue, on Sunday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Family will receive friends at 1st Apostolic Church, 27 S. Caroline St. on Tuesday at 10:30 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 11

On May 30, 2004 MRS. SHEILA WALKER, devoted wife of Otis R. Walker. On Thursday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE Funeral Services (EAST), 4905 York Road, where the family will receive friends from 3 to 8 P.M. On Friday, Mrs. Walker will lie in state at St. Paul Baptist Church, 3101 The Alameda where the family will receive friends from 11:30 to 12 noon with services to follow. Inquires to 410-433-7500.

On February 24, 2009; SHEILA T., loving mother of Yolanda Woodridge and Felicia Broadus. On Thursday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES

On December 25, 2004, SHEILA L.; beloved wife of the late Howard E. Wain, Jr.; dear mother of Tammy, Sheila and Howard, III; sister of Cheryl, Gayle, Frank and Keith; grandmother of Mikey, Tabitha, Michele, Destinee and Nate. Friends may call at the Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway, on Wednesday and Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services on Thursday at 7:30 P.M. Interment private.

Sheila, Sheila, Sheila ... Girlfriend? You are making us look bad. Ms. Dixon, who resigned as mayor of Baltimore in a plea deal that required her to make $45,000 in donations to charity, is behind - way behind - in her payments, and she's in danger of a probation violation that could cost her a $83,000-a-year pension and perhaps even send her to jail. That would pretty much scuttle her undisguised ambition to return to City Hall. If it is true that a woman has to be twice as good as a man to succeed, it is also true that she has to be twice as clean, and Ms. Dixon was anything but. She was convicted of pocketing $500 in gift cards intended for the poor, but that's hardly the end of her misdeeds.

Call it the Sheila Dixon amendment. Although it was actually written in response to another corrupt Maryland politician who didn't know when to give up her hold on elective office, Question 3 on next week's ballot speaks directly to the turmoil Baltimore's gift card-stealing former mayor created in the weeks after she was found guilty in 2009. After years of scandal and a lengthy trial on theft and other misconduct charges, Ms. Dixon was found guilty by a jury of her peers in early December of that year.

The purloined gift cards. The fur coats. The bicycling tours of the city with staffers.  And, of course, the famous shoe incident. Former mayor Sheila Dixon's tenure in City Hall is ripe with material for comedians.  On Thursday, seven comics and local media personalities will be poking fun of  Dixon -- to her face-- at a "Roast and Toast" at the Baltimore Comedy Factory. Why would Dixon, who resigned in 2010 as part of a plea deal to settle criminal charges, agree to a such a thing?

A majority of Baltimore's most engaged Democrats approve of how Sheila Dixon handled her job as mayor. But they're not keen for a comeback. Dixon, who is barred from running for office this year as part of a plea deal to settle corruption charges, has said she might campaign for mayor in 2015. But while 53 percent of respondents to the Sun Poll said they approve of her work for the city from 2007 to 2010, 54 percent said they would not consider voting her back into the office.

Why don't those running down former mayor Sheila Dixon realize that they too may have some hidden sins that may not be as public as hers ("A Dixon comeback?" July 14)? We are the most accusatory people on earth. I understand that those in authority have a greater responsibility to display good character and integrity, and I know she did wrong. But she paid for her crime, and people still aren't satisfied. They want her to keep on paying her debt to society forever. The truth is that Ms. Dixon loved Baltimore, and there has been a great vacuum since she left.

I have been thinking about media and public shame a lot lately. And events this week with Rupert Murdoch globally and Sheila Dixon locally have focused my troubled thoughts. The litany of public figures who have been in the news lately for behaving shamefully is a long and sad one. The indictment of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards in June brought back the whole sorry saga of him fathering a child out of wedlock with a campaign videographer as his wife fought a cancer that would claim her life in 2010.

I simply want to throw up after hearing about Sheila Dixon's attempt to influence the city's current political scene. What are these people thinking? It makes me lose respect for any candidate who would listen to her. Aren't we concerned about passing on any values of rightness and responsibility to our children? Here is a woman so narcissistic she has yet to deliver a sincere apology or ask forgiveness from those she once served. She really believes she committed no sin other than getting caught, and that her "good deeds" outweigh the bad. Now we have a mayor who is sincere, hard-working, ethical and smart.

Call me old-fashioned, but I figure the process should be like this: guilt and punishment, followed by disgrace and shame, followed by a period of humility and self-examination, followed by insight and contrition, followed by a public appeal for forgiveness, followed by hard labor in good deeds, then redemption and grace, and maybe someday (if the statutes, stars and voters allow it) re-election. That's my idea of how a corrupt American politician who betrayed the trust of the people who elected her — say, Baltimore's former mayor, Sheila Dixon — might execute a successful political comeback.