Eva Frances Fielder

Eva Frances Wilburn Fielder Eva Frances Wilburn Fielder, age 99, of Waynesboro, TN passed away November 29, 2012 at Wayne Medical Center. A native of Hartsville, TN, Mrs. Fielder graduated from Trousdale County High School at age 15. She attended Tennessee Technology in Cookeville for two years and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1942. She taught 33 years in Tennessee public schools, including two years in Trousdale County, two in Robertson County and 29 years in Wayne County until her retirement in 1978. She was a member of Waynesboro First Christian Church and charter member of Alpha Rho's Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma honorary education fraternity.



Mrs. Fielder was preceded in death by her husband, James Harris Fielder; father, Booker Wilburn; mother, Cynthia Johnson Wilburn; brother, C.H. Wilburn; sisters, Grace Wilburn Oldham and Mary Louise Wilburn; nephew, Harold Oldham; nieces, Mary Frances Oldham Gregory and Melba Oldham Burnett; and son-in-law, Sandy Crye.



Survivors include two daughters, Mary Cynthia Diamond and husband, Gerald of Shawnee, KS, and Virginia Dodge Fielder of Boone, NC; three grandchildren, Camille Diamond Krebs and husband, Michael of Brooklyn, NY, David Harris Diamond of Merriam, KS, and Andrew Frank Diamond of Scottsdale, AZ; two great-grandchildren, Samuel Harris Krebs and Lillian Eve Krebs, of Brooklyn, NY; and sister-in-law, Virginia Fielder Hobbs of Waynesboro, TN. She also is survived by two nephews, William Oldham of St. George, UT, and Frank Wilburn of Tupelo, MS; three nieces, Marjorie Oldham Pruitt of Antioch, TN, Alice Oldham Duke of Mobile, AL, and Betty Wilburn McAnulty of Brentwood, TN; first cousins, Raymond Johnson of Hartsville and Katherine Taylor of Carthage, TN; and special loved ones, Sue A. Greer of Indio, CA, and Frankie Sue Pulley of Waynesboro.



Funeral services will be conducted December 1, 2012 at Shackelford Funeral Home Chapel in Waynesboro, led by Randy Morris. Interment will be in Shields Cemetery, with Bobby Pinckley officiating and Shackelford Funeral Directors, Wayne County, directing. Pallbearers include Herbert Brewer, Harry G. (Sonny) Corn, David Diamond, John Hobbs, Jake Pulley, and Ray Pulley. Honorary pallbearers include Andy Diamond, Jerry Diamond, Raymond Johnson, Lige Hollis, Tom McAnulty, Bill Oldham and Frank Wilburn.