JoAnn Fields

Funeral services for JoAnn Fields will be conducted on Thursday, January 28th, 2021 at 2:00 PM at Long Prairie Baptist Church with Reverend Jess Glass and Pastor George Cochran officiating. Her family will receive visitors on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 beginning at 1:00 PM until 6:00 PM, and a Wake beginning at 6:00 PM until 7:00 PM. She will be laid to rest next to her husband Selven fields at Long Prairie Cemetery in Kansas, OK. Online condolences for her family may be left at www.reedculver.com.

Pallbearers for JoAnn include Tyler Cloud, JoeDon Fields, Kyle Walker, Jeremy Chuculate, Tevin Keen, Taten Trejo, Jaston Fields, Isaiah Fields, Eyan McCarter, and Jeremiah McCarter. Her honorary pallbearers include Joshua Allen, Bradley Fields, Tyler Fields, Jerrick Drywater, Eduardo Trejo, Cruz Trejo, Elijah Fields, Kyle McCarter, Aaron Birdcreek, Esau McCarter, Skylar Locust, Jerrod Fields, and Richard Fields.

JoAnn McCarter Fields was born on April 13th, 1951 in Tahlequah, Ok, the daughter of Louis and Jessie Mae (Stover) McCarter. She attended school at Oaks and later attended and completed a vocational course of Early Childhood development. On September 22nd, 1968, she was joined in Holy Matrimony to Selven Fields. Together they would share 48 years of happy memories and laughter, and raise eight children, Darlene, Elmer, Joey, Vanessa, Rick, Tonia, Laura and Tony. JoAnn worked for many years at Cherokee Nation for the Child Care Center and as an Immersion teacher of the Cherokee language. She adored children and loved helping them to learn and grow. When she had free time, she was home chasing her children and grandchildren around, and enjoying every moment she had with them. She loved to jump into the car with one of her daughters and take off down the road to go shopping, seeing the sights. She was happy to do a bit of sewing, flower arranging, cake decorating, and cooking large home cooked meals for her family, her breakfasts of biscuits and gravy were the best, her fry bread and beans, fried potatoes, fried chicken, knuche and bean balls were never duplicated. A Christian by faith, she served the Lord of the days of her life at Long Prairie Baptist Church, serving in the WMU, serving on the food committee for years, and providing a home for every child that knocked on her door, needing a place to call home. JoAnn and Selven were devoted to each other, heart and soul. Together they found the good in every situation in life, and instructed their children in the ways to face life’s challenges head on. They wanted their children to have faith, pray to God our Father, to face the future with confidence, and always greet people with a handshake. Free time was spent loading up the family to go to Rocky Ford Park to share a family dinner and do a little swimming. She loved to hold monthly dinners and holidays had JoAnn shining with her best talents. There were days when the world was not so kind, when she lost her husband, her son Rick and her brother, Calvin. JoAnn never lost her faith, it sustained her. She would dust herself off and try again. The Lord called this wonderful woman home from her many labors on January 22nd, 2021 in Tahlequah, Ok, with her family by her side. JoAnn was 69 year old and will be dearly missed.

She is preceded in death by her grandparents, Willie and Mary (Cummings) Stover, Joe McCarter and wife Mary (Smith) McCarter, her husband Selven in 2016, her mom and dad, her son Rick Panther in 2019, and one brother, Calvin McCarter.

Those left to cherish her memory include her children, Darlene Sanders and husband Barry of Locust Grove, Elmer Panther and wife Tsianina of Kansas, Joey Fields and special companion Diana of Kansas, Vanessa Fields of Oaks, Tonia Trejo and husband Eduardo of Oaks, OK, Laura Fields of Oaks, and Tony Fields of Oaks, OK. She leaves six brothers and sisters, Dewayne McCarter and wife Vicki of Tahlequah, Douglas McCarter and wife Annette of Tahlequah, Jack McCarter of Holdenville, Janet Birdcreek and husband Lex of Henryetta, Janice McCarter of Tahlequah, Jennifer McCarter of Tahlequah, OK, and uncle Claude Stover of Oaks. She lives on in her 26 grandchildren, Joshua Allen and companion Andrea Cloud, Alyssa Allen and companion Julio Enriquez, Tyler fields, Bradley Fields, Kristin Walker and companion Aaron Kingfisher, Kyle Walker, Alex Fields and companion Skylar Locust , JoeDon Fields, Tevin Keen, Kierra Fields, Jeremy Chuculate and wife Jerika of Westville, Jerrick Drywater, Delaney Drywater, Erianna Drywater, Taten Trejo and Allison McCullen, Tatiana Trejo, Nayla Trejo, Eduardo Trejo, Cruz Trejo, Isaiah Fields, Elijah Fields, Melina Fields, Ezekiel Fields, Jaston Fields and companion Bailey Golden, Sakiyah Fields and companion David Yahola, and Nakayla Fields. She also held a special place in her heart for Tina, Jimi, Crystal, Johnna, and Amber whom she loved as her own, as well as 15 great grandchildren, many nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends and loved ones too numerous to mention.