This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fields, Jones, Francis, Grice, Edwards, Tolson, Lacy, Nicholas, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/plB.2ACI/3428 Message Board Post: Herman Fields Aug. 2, 1929 - Aug. 17, 2005 Herman “Tucker” Fields, 76, passed away on Wednesday, August 17, 2005, at UTMB Hospital. Funeral service was to be at at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 27, 2005, at St. John Baptist Church, with the Rev. Louis Simpson, officiating. Burial will follow at Lakeview Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 until 6 p.m. August 26, 2005, at E R Johnson Family Mortuary, followed by a wake from 7 until 8:30 p.m. at St. John Baptist Church (30th and Sealy). Herman was born August 2, 1929, in Bay City, Texas, to Archie, Sr. and Marilyn Jones Fields. He was a 1950 graduate of Hillard High School in Bay City. After graduating, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He proudly served his country and was honorably discharged. Herman would then move to Galveston, where he met and married the late Azie M. Francis on May 23, 1955. He retired after many years of services from the L.L.A. and was member of the St. John church, where he served as a usher and in the Brotherhood until his health failed. He was preceded in death by his parent; wife, Azie Fields; two brothers, Isaiah and Archie Fields; and two sisters, Ella Grice and Fostena Edwards. Cherish memories will linger in the hearts of his two sons, David Lee Jones and Tyrone Fields of Galveston; grandchild; three brothers, Jimmy Fields of Houston, Hallard Fields (Jo Ann) of Freeport, Texas, and Tommy Fields (Brenda) of Galveston; two sisters, Mary Lee Tolson (Ernest) of Bay City, Texas, and Marilyn Lacy (Rev. Byrd) of Houston; three sisters-in-law, Ora S. Fields, Gertrude Nicholas of Galveston and Johnnie C. Fields of Bay City, Texas; brother-in-law, Frank Nicholas of Galveston; uncle, Lawyer Fields of Bay City, Texas; devoted friends, Claudine Jones, Ruby A. Hill, Freddie Merida and T.L. Young; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. The family sends special thanks to the Island Dialysis Center and Pastor Simpson and the St. John church family. Bay City Tribune August 28, 2005 Matagorda County, Texas