Boyd Fields

**Boyd Fields, 81**, passed away Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at the Indiana Veterans Home in Lafayette. Mr. Fields was a resident of the Veterans Home and was formerly of Napoleon and Versailles. He was born at Livingston, Kentucky on September 7, 1922 the son of Stephen and Julia Dees Fields. He was married to Mary Virginia Carr on December 7, 1942 and she preceded him in death on March 5, 1998. Survivors include two sons, Steven Fields and his wife Rosemary of Montgomery, Texas and Rick Fields and his wife Mary of Dillsboro; four granddaughters, Julie Fields of Seattle, Washington, Susan Fields of Brooklyn, New York, Erin Fields Kierner of Columbus, Ohio, and Ashley Fields of Indianapolis. Mr. Fields was a WWII veteran having served in the Coast Guard from 1943 to 1946. He was a submarine spotter on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and was working shore patrol duty in Times Square, New York on VJ Day. He had farmed in the Reddington and Seymour areas and had worked as a foreman for the Stadler Meat Packing plant in Columbus. From 1970 to 1980 he, along with his wife, operated Field's IGA store in Napoleon and from 1980 to 1985 they operated Field's IGA in Osgood. Mr. Fields was a member of the Dabney Baptist Church and the Versailles American Legion. Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 5 at 2pm at the Stratton-Karsteter Funeral Home in Versailles with Rev. Charles Cole of the Dabney Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in the Mud Pike Cemetery near Osgood with military graveside rites by the Versailles American Legion. Visitation will be Friday, June from 6pm to 8pm at the funeral home. Memorials may be given to the Dabney Baptist Church or the Mud Pike Cemetery.