'Birdie' Shelton, Indiana's first COVID-19 fatality remembered

Indiana's first COVID-19 fatality remembered one year after death
Roberta "Birdie" Shelton was the state's first coronavirus death according to records at the Indiana State Department of Health.
Author: Emily Longnecker
Updated: 11:40 PM EST March 9, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS — “It’s been a long year,” said Farrah Gibbens from Brazil, Indiana.
“We talked every day, usually in the morning because I’d call her on my way to work and she would be on her way to work so we’d talk,” Gibbens recalled.
One of Gibben’s last conversations with her aunt happened a week before Birdie died.
“She said she thought she was going to go the hospital,” Gibbens recalled, saying Birdie’s coronavirus symptoms started with a headache followed by a fever.

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