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Date of Death: October 31, 2004 Funeral services for Zola Fields, 92, of Paton, will be 10:00am Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Jefferson, with interment at Paton Twp Cemetery, Paton, IA. Friends may call at Slininger-Rossow Funeral Home in Jefferson between 9am – 9pm Wednesday. A Vigil for the Deceased will be held at 7:00pm Wednesday, followed by visitation with the family until 9:00pm. Memorials are suggested to the Greene County Medical Center Foundation.
Zola Marjorie Fields, daughter of George Ancil Haynes and Minnie Pearl Sandberg Haynes, was born on January 6, 1912 in Farnhamville, Iowa. Zola graduated from Farnhamville High School in 1929. After graduation, she attended AIB in Des Moines for 2 years. Zola was employed in several different offices in the Des Moines and the Greene County area. Zola met her husband, John P. Fields, at a Barn Dance south of Farnhamville in 1933. The couple married on October 27, 1934 in Omaha, Nebraska. John and Zola lived in the Paton area until late 1935, moving to a farm south of Moorland, Iowa. In 1943, they moved to the home farm south of Paton. In 1966, John and Zola retired and moved to Paton where she continued to live until her death. Zola was a member of the St. John’s Altar Society, the Delta Dek and Twelvette bridge clubs. She was also a member of the Ecumenical Bible Study Group in Paton. Zola’s favorite things were spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren playing cards, dancing and fishing. Zola Fields died October 31, 2004 at the Greene County Medical Center in Jefferson, Iowa. She was 92 years of age. Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, John P. Fields, in 1985; one brother, Merle Haynes and one sister, Opal Haynes. Survivors include one son, Jerry Fields and his wife, Mary Jane of Paton, IA; one sister, Phoebe Fields of Jefferson, IA; 4 grandchildren, John W. Fields and wife, Andrea, of Plain, WI; Cari Schaffer and her husband, Tony, of Lancaster, WI; Pat Fields and his wife, Michelle, of Paton, IA and Bill Fields and his wife, Christy, of Pella, IA; 6 great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law Maxine Haynes of Farnhamville, IA.
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