John Hilton Fields Sr.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11Am Saturday Morning, April 1, 2017 in the Chapel of Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home with Rev. Wright Culpepper officiating. Interment will follow with Military Honors in Brunswick Memorial Park Cemetery with Handy Jernigan, III, Randy Jernigan, James Langston, III, Jered Fields, Dylan Jackson, Allen Lockhart, Roby Jernigan, and Randon Jernigan serving as pallbearers. Honorary Pallbearers will be Sea Island Security Employees.

He was born in Appling County, Georgia on September 5, 1927 to the late John D. and Maggie Lou C. Fields. He attended and graduated from Surrency High School in 1944. Mr. Fields was a veteran of The US Army serving in the European Theater of WWII. After service to his country Mr. Fields moved to Glynn County in 1968 and was employed with Babcock and Wilcox and Sea Island both from which he retired. He was a member of College Place United Methodist Church. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife Edith D. Fields, and a brother, William F. Fields.

Survivors include a son, John H. Fields, Jr. of Jacksonville, three daughters, Brenda Jernigan (Handy), Cynthia Langston, and Pam Jackson (Randy), all of Brunswick, eight grandchildren, Handy Jernigan, III, Randy Jernigan, Sandra Buie, Jennings Bryan Fields, Jered Fields, James Langston, III, Mallory Jackson Clark, and Dylan Jackson, 16 great grandchildren, 2 great great grandchildren, a brother, Robert C. Fields (Christine) of Port Wentworth, a sister, Vivian Kelly of Hollywood, FL, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be Saturday morning, April 1, 2017 from 9:30 AM until the Funeral Hour at Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home. www.edomillerandsons.com