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The Homegoing Celebration
for
Melvin Louis Fields
Sunrise 
Sunset
SunsetOct. 06, 1946 July 15, 2017
SERVICE
Saturday, July 22, 2017 at
St. Stephens Baptist Church
Stephens, AR
INTERMENT
New Home Cemetery
Stephens, AR
CLERGY
Pastor Jeffery Fields
VISITATION
Friday, July 21, 2017 between the hours of 11:30am until 4:30pm at Marks Funeral Home in Magnolia, AR
Obituary
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Mr. Melvin Louis Fields was born October 06, 1946 to the late Melvin and Annie B. Fields in Stephens, AR.
Melvin professed his early belief in Christ at St. Stephens Baptist Church in Stephens, AR, where the late Pete Lambert was pastor.
Melvin Fields was married to Mrs. Verdia Fields for Thirty-seven years.
Melvin attended Carver High School in Stephens, AR and later went to college at AM & N in Pine Bluff, AR and was drafted in the Army, where he served in Vietnam until April 08, 1968. Melvin later moved to Chicago and returned back home in 1981.
He was preceded in death by: his parents, brother: Nelson Ford; sisters: Carole Ann Jackson and Gayle Todd of McNeil, AR; nephews: Jimmy Todd and Qyland Fields and niece: Tracy Todd.
He leaves to cherish his memories: Wife: Verdia Fields of Pine Bluff, Ar. His children: Lashawn Fields of West Helena, Melvin Fields III of Georgia, Neloshia and Lenord, Candeece Lucas Fields and Marcus Fields all of Pine Bluff, AR; sister Diane Sutton of Mesquite, TX; brother: Johnny Fields of Pine Bluff, AR Two aunts: Ethel Nash and Loraine Hatcher, ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews and friends, also two true friends: Leo Rattler and Michael Brown.