Mooreland Cemetery

Mooreland, Woodward County, Oklahoma

© Billings Funeral Home
Submitted by: Terry Dudley

Syvilla Mae Elwood Fields

July 29, 1020 ~ April 17, 2025

Funeral Services for Syvilla Fields will be held on Tuesday, April 22nd, at the First United Methodist Church in Mooreland, Oklahoma at 2:00 p.m.. Burial will follow at the Mooreland Cemetery with arrangements under the direction of Billings Funeral Home.

Syvilla Mae Elwood was born July 29, 1929, to Golie Ervin and Eunice Mae (Kirkwood) Elwood on the family farm northeast of Mooreland. She attended school at "Paradise," a small country school located just a mile north of their home. She attended through the seventh grade, after which the school consolidated with Mooreland Public Schools. She graduated in 1946 as the salutatorian of her class. After graduation, Syvilla began working for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in Woodward, Oklahoma. She and her roommate, Jane Highfill, were in the Woodward Theater the night of the Woodward, Oklahoma tornado on April 9, 1947. Although the telephone workers were on strike at the time, everyone returned to work immediately to assist in recovery efforts.

On March 7, 1948, Syvilla and Billy Eugene Fields were united in marriage at the home of her parents. Their first home was in Perry, Oklahoma, as Billy had purchased a home there. After only a year, they moved back to Mooreland to live on the Otto Roberts farm working for Otto. Their family began to grow, and they were blessed with the birth of their son, Ronald Ray. In April 1950, they moved to the A. W. Crawford farm southeast of Mooreland in the Moscow Flats Community, where they spent the next 16 1/2 years and welcomed three more children: Judy Marie, Lowell Eugene, and Joe Alan.

A devoted mother and farming partner, Syvilla also had a creative spirit. She loved sewing for her children and grandchildren, and took joy in quilting, macrame, ceramics, and counted cross stitch. In the fall of 1966, Bill and Syvilla moved their family northwest of Mooreland, settling on her parents' farm.

In 1968, Syvilla began working in the office of the Woodward Livestock Auction Company, where she was a dedicated employee for 24 years until her retirement.

Family was the center of Syvilla's world. She and Bill were a constant presence at their children's, grandchildren's, and great-grandchildren's stock shows and sporting events where they loved to proudly cheer them on.

Syvilla and Bill were blessed with seventy-two years of marriage before Bill's passing in 2020.

She is survived by her sister, Ellen Poulson; sons, Ronald Ray and his wife Letha, and Joe Alan; daughter, Judy Marie and her husband Richard (Mac) McGoon; daughter in law Teresa Fields; Grandchildren, Melissa McLain (Russell), Russell Fields (Andrea Bell), Will Watson (Yvonne), Alisha Spencer, Leslie Johnson (Jared), Stephanie Pugh, Todd Fields (Shelly), Justin Fields (Holli), Lori Lichtenwalter (Steven), Billy Fields, and Allison Fields; and Great-grandchildren, Declan McLain (Jane), Collen McLain, Mason Fields, Carson Fields, Kaden Fields, Brandi Campbell (Matt), Holli Priddy, Dillon Watson, Maecy Spencer, James Spencer, Paige Pugh, Sydnee Pugh, Brittney Fields, Bailey Fields, Madison Fields (James Phelps), Justin "Bubba" Fields, Jerika Whisennand, Sarah Hensley (Bayler), Rebekah Lichtenwalter, Quintin Whisennand, Lilly Fields; and Great great-grandchildren, Kinlee Noble, Jerikoe Fields, Jaxxon Fields, Camila Marquez, Arena Thomas, Avery Phelps, Brooks Lichtenwalter; as well as nieces and nephews and lots of other family and friends.

Syvilla was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Fields; her parents; her brother, Donald; her niece, Beverly Williams; a son, Lowell Eugene; and her daughter-in-law, Cindy Jo Fields.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mooreland First United Methodist Church

Memorial Fund or Family Life Center or to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City (with contributions directed specifically toward Alzheimer's Disease or Parkinson's Disease research) with the funeral home accepting the donations.