Gracie Lee (Dyer Parker) Fields was the fourth of five children –all girls- in a West Tennessee family. She was the youngest "Queen" in the 1935 West Tennessee Cotton Carnival held in Memphis when she was 17 years of age!

Gracie always wished to be remembered as a "Southern Lady", ready to help those that needed a friend or who needed someone to talk to.

Gracie lived for 50 years in the Montgomery Village area of Santa Rosa, CA. She was active in Civic and Social affairs, having been President of the Santa Rosa Newcomers Club and worked actively with Neva Joe Schaffer for some time. She was a member of the Welfare League in Santa Rosa and has been a member of the Saturday Afternoon Club for many years.

Gracie was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Santa Rosa since 1960, serving on the Deaconate Board. She was also a member of the American Baptist Women's Ministry. She was active in many of the Church programs.

She will best be remembered for her dedication to the sick and spent so much of her time visiting nursing homes and "shut-ins". She stayed with cancer friends and encouraged them to home Hospice when time was right.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Mike Hickman officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.

The family will receive visitors from 10-11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

She was predeceased by two husbands, BF Parker of Dyersburg, TN in August, 1947 and William W. Fields, Jr. who passed away in Santa Rosa, CA in October, 1985. She was also predeceased by her parents, Leonard Walter "LW" Dyer and Marjorie "Maude" Ross Dyer as well as her sisters, Eva Dyer Hastings, Ethel Dyer Springer, Lorene Dyer Hurley and Lora Dyer Holt.

She is survived by all of her four children, John E. Parker (Jane) of Palm Harbor, FL, Linda K. Parker (Bruce Cleveland) of Camano Is., WA, Dr. W. Wesley Fields, III (Nadia Mazur) of Dana Point, CA and Susan L. Fields of Bellevue, WA.

She is also survived by 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. She loved being a grandmother (known as Grammie, Poppy and GG) and spent much time visiting them.

One sister, Rachel Finch, survives in Boston, MA, as well as her sister-in-law, Anne Smith of Walnut Creek, CA. She wishes to remember her cousins, nieces and nephews.

At her request, Gracie will be buried with family in her childhood home of Dyersburg, TN. The family wishes to thank Dr. Kevin Clay of Stanwood, WA, Dr. John Roberts of Virginia Mason in Seattle, WA, Staff at Merrill Gardens in Stanwood, WA, her angel nurses Lily and Brenda as well as Hospice. Donations may be made to Hospice or the charity of your choice.

"Don't think it ain't been nice!"