Payne Co. OK. obit for: Bernice (Qualls) Fields *********************************************************************** Posted to Payne Co. OK Archives 5/31/2003 http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payneobits.html Submitted by: Bill Cook, County Archivist, billcook44@aol.com Thanks to http://www.stwnewspress.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.stwnewspress.com/ ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Bernice (Qualls) Fields Bernice Fields, 98, of Cushing, died Friday, May 30, 2003 at Cushing Regional Hospital. Services will be Monday at 2 p.m. at Bryan Chapel Methodist Church in Boatman. The Rev. Kenneth Gable will officiate. Burial will follow at Bryan Chapel Cemetery in Boatman under the direction of Palmer Funeral Home of Cushing. She was born in Indian Territory on Nov. 13, 1904 to John W. and Kilby (Odle) Qualls. She married Owen G. Fields in 1923. She lived in the Boatman community most of her life and was active in community affairs. She moved to Pryor after the death of her husband. While living in Boatman, she attended Bryan Chapel Methodist Church and taught children's Sunday School classes. Later, she became a member of the Church of God in Pryor and continued teaching Sunday School for several years. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; four brothers; one sister; and one son-in-law. She is survived by her daughter, Louise Myers of Cushing; two grandchildren, George Myers Jr. and his wife, Edna, and Margaret Ann Dixon and her husband, Bryan,; four great-grandchildren, Emily Dixon, Bryan Dixon Jr., Debra Hyde and Becky Mills; and two sisters, Pearl Charles and Modest Barnes. *********************************************************************** This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright c 2003 by the submitter noted above. ***********************************************************************