Visitation for Effie Fields will be from 12 to 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, at Price Funeral Home in Maryville. Funeral services will follow at 1 p.m. with burial in Miriam Cemetery, Maryville. Memorials may be made to the Maryville First Christian Church, 201 West Third Street, Maryville, Mo., 64468.
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Effie Elizabeth Fields, 93, formerly of Maryville, died on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, in Phoenix at the home of her daughter, where she had resided the past seven years.
Effie Elizabeth Underwood was born on June 24, 1917, in Coffey, the daughter of William S. "Bill" and Almeda (Ballard) Underwood.
She was a graduate of the Coffey High School and attended Northwest Missouri State Teacher’s College in Maryville.
Effie married Paul Eugene Fields on March 21, 1941, in Gallatin.
Mrs. Fields had been a former manager of the Tober’s Dress Shop in Maryville and a member of the Maryville First Christian Church.
Her husband, Paul Eugene Fields, preceded Effie in death on Jan. 1, 1985, as did their son, Paul Douglas Fields on Oct. 15, 1979, her parents, and a brother, Douglas Underwood.
Effie is survived by one daughter, Betty Jo Fields-Howard of Phoenix.