Betty L. Fields

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MYSELF: MY NAME IS BETTY LORETHA (FORD) FIELDS. I WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 22, 1938 TO THE UNION OF LEROY AND ORA LEE FORD.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY: LEROY FORD, (FATHER), ORA LEE FORD (MOTHER), HARVEY LEE FIELDS (HUSBAND), JUANITA WOODS AND THERESA WILLIS, (SISTERS), LERON, REGINALD AND DANA (BROTHERS).

I ATTENED DUNBAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE LEEDS DISTRICT OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. WE MOVED TO KANSAS CITY, KANSAS ON QUINDARO BLVD FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS. I WENT TO VERNON AND NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL. WE MOVED BACK TO KANSAS CITY, MO WHERE I ATTENDED LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, EAST HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADUATED FROM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1956. I’VE HAD A FEW JOBS IN MY LIFETIME. I’LL LIST THE LAST TWO: COLUMBIA TOY FACTORY FOR 5 YEARS, WESTERN ELECTRIC WHICH WAS CHANGED TO LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES AND THEN AT&T TECHNOLOGIES WHERE I RETIRED AFTER 29 YEARS OF SERVICE, A VERY GOOD JOB! SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES I LOVED TO DO WAS DRAWING, PLAYING SPADES, BID WHIST AND DANCING. I WAS A MEMBER OF IT IS WRITTEN EVANGELISTIC BAPTIST CHURCH, BISHOP L.W. BOLTON, JR., OVERSEER.

AT THE AGE OF 72 YEARS OLD, I MARRIED FOR THE FIRST TIME TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE HARVEY LEE FIELDS AND MOVED TO OLATHE, KANSAS. THANK GOD FOR BLESSING HARVEY AND I TO SHARE 11 YEARS TOGETHER. I LOVED HIM SO MUCH AND HE LOVED ME. I UNITED WITH NEW LIFE BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH, REVEREND GOODEN, PASTOR. I SANG WITH GOLDEN ANGELS COMMUNITY CHOIR. A VERY SPIRITUAL ANOITED AND DEDICATED AND LOVING CHOIR, AND OUR MEMBERS WERE 55 & UP. WE COULD REALLY SING.

MYRTLE HAWKINS OF THE SPIRITUAL NIGHTING GALES WAS OUR FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR. SHE TAUGHT US HOW TO SING ANYTHING AND ANYWHERE. I LOVED OUR CHOIR. AFTER MY HUSBANDS DEATH, I MOVED BACK TO KANSAS CITY, MO. I MOVED TO SWOPE RIDGE GARDENS LUXURY LIVING COMPLEX.

I LEAVE TO MOURN: BRIAN KEITH FORD (MY ONLY SON), DOLLIE FORD AND SHELIA TOBAY (MY SISTER’S), CATHERINE FORD AND JOHN WILLIS (SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW), OMAR ABDUL HAKEM, LARON, REGINALD, AND BRANDON(GRAND SON’S), CHAMPAYNE AND KEASHA (GRAND DAUGHTER’S), NIECES, NEPHEWS, COUSINS, OTHER RELATIVES AND A HOST OF FRIENDS.