Fields, Mrytle E. (Brown) Meyer 1913-2000
FIELDS, FRY, BROWN, MEYER, MCMAHON, HORTON, CHRISTOPHER, SOUTHWICK
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Date: 1/20/2008 at 13:23:36
Mrytle E. Fields 1913-2000
Mrytle E. Fields, age 86, a resident of the Knox County Nursing Home, Knoxville (Ill.), formerly of Abingdon, died at 9:37 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4, 2000 in Cottage Hospital, Galesburg.
She was born Dec. 16, 1913, in Clayton County, Iowa, the daughter of John and Emma Fry Brown.
She married Ewald Meyer in 1932 in Clayton County, Iowa. He preceded her in death in 1945. She married Elmer O. Fields in Galena, in 1948. He died on May 27, 1977.
Survivors include three sons, Leon Meyer, Westby, Wis.; Allen Meyer, Abingdon and Robert Meyer, Farmersburg, Iowa; three daughters, Janie McMahon, Farley, Iowa, Diane Fields, Bushnell and Regina Horton, Galesburg; one brother, Veryl Brown, Tacoma, Wash.; 38 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one son, Elmer Fields Jr.; two daughters, Dorothy Christopher and Donna Southwick and by three brothers, two sisters and two grandsons.
She was a homemaker and had lived at the nursing home the past month. She had lived in Abingdon prior to that since 1959.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m., Thursday in Hinchliff-Pearson-West Chapel, Abingdon with Rev. Robert Friese officiating.
Burial was in Abingdon Cemetery.
Clayton Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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