Graveside services for Rosie Lee Fairfield will be 2PM Tuesday May 14, 2019 at Live Oak Cemetery in Youngsport, Texas.
Born January 18, 1929 in Cat Spring, Texas, Rosie was born the 4th of 5 children. She passed away on April 15, 2019. She was 90.
She attended grade school until the 7th grade, when she had to quit to help take care of her younger sister, and later obtained her GED. She attended and graduated from a Business College in Houston, Texas.
In her early 20's she applied to and was accepted by the U. S. Department of State, where she found herself traveling overseas, as a clerk in the U. S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia. She met her then future husband, Ken Fairfield, at the airport in Riyadh in 1952, and they were married on July 7, 1953 in Beirut, Lebanon. They lived in Jidda, Saudi Arabia and upon their return to the U. S., they settled in Cocoa, Florida. She was employed as a Senior Timekeeper with Pan American, while Ken worked as an engineer for RCA.
They adopted 2 children, Teresa and Dale, and with the arrival of their first child, Teresa, Rosie became a housewife. In 1972, the family relocated to Killeen, Texas. At that time, Rosie continued raising their children while Ken worked at Central Texas College.
Rosie began working at Central Texas College with the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) in August of 1979. When ISES relocated, she applied for a position as a clerk with the Accounting Department. She ended her career, in September 1992, as the Senior Accounting Clerk in Accounts Payable.
In 1982, Rosie and Ken co-founded, with several other couples, the Southwest Bell County Volunteer Fire Department. Together the all raised money and helped make the SWBCVFD what it is today. She not only drove the trucks, but also donned full bunker gear and fought fires. She was voted onto the Board of Directors as the official Bookkeeper while working at the Salvation Army as their Bookkeeper. Upon retiring from the Salvation Army, Rosie was able to spend more time as the Bookkeeper for the Fire Department and ultimately became active as part of their support personnel.
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