Richard Dick Fields

Dick was born March 19, 1929 in Council, ID. He was the fourth of five sons born to John Wesley and Mable Mildred Fields. He was raised in Lander, WY and grew up working on the family ranch. The family moved to Nampa, ID and Dick graduated from Nampa High School in 1948.

In January 1951, Dick joined the U.S. Navy and served until November 1954 when he received an honorable discharge. During that time, he married Georgiana Joy Richards while stationed in Honolulu, HI. Over the years he worked as a roughneck on drilling rigs, deputy sheriff of Nye County, NV, geo-thermal boiler engineer, and quality assurance officer for Fallon Naval Air Base. After 29 years of service he retired as a civil servant from the U.S. Government in August 1995.

He was an avid coin collector and rock hound. He enjoyed fishing and hunting and had a lifelong love of horses. Everyone who met him knew him to be a “sweet and generous man”.

He is survived by his daughter, Kathy Perkins and her husband Rick of Fort Collins, CO; son Verne Steers of Fallon, NV; 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Dick was preceded in death by his parents, John and Mable Fields; his wife Georgiana Joy Richards Fields; son Gregory Forrey; grandson Brandon Forrey; four brothers, Jack, Cecil, Chester and Eugene Fields.

A memorial will be held at 11 am January 2, 2016 at Allnutt Funeral Home in Fort Collins, CO.