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Submitted: 7/24/18 • Approved: 1/2/20 • Last Updated: 12/20/23 • R1232036-G1232035-S3
Mary Frances
December 18, 1922 - March 23, 2017
Daughter of Jess B. Sharp &
Ethel Knox Sharp
Twin Daughters:
Marilyn F. Moore
Carolyn F. Archbold
October 5, 1947
*Obituary
Mary Frances Sharp Fielden, former resident of De Queen and Lockesburg, AR, passed away in Stillwater, OK on March 23, 2017.
Mary was born on December 18, 1922 to Ethel Knox Sharp and Jesse B. Sharp in Lockesburg where she spent her early years playing at the home of her grandparents, Wm Eldridge and Ida Sutton Sharp Family Peach Farm. She graduated from Southeastern State College in Durant and began a long career as a public school elementary teacher in Pasadena, TX and then in Eagletown, OK.
Mary was committed to her family, passionate about teaching first graders, fond of working among her flowers, and spent many years caring for her elderly mother and aunt. She was a treasure trove of family history which she shared with her cousins. She especially enjoyed attending Homecoming at the Belleville Methodist Church and Cemetery, Lockesburg, where her parents, brother, 10 grandparents, and more than 40 other kin are laid to rest.
During WWII, Mary moved with her family to Chula Vista, CA to work at the Rohr Aircraft Company where she worked as a secretary, and her mother worked as a “Rosie the Riveter.”
Mary married Lewis Carroll Fielden in Cambridge, MA on May 13, 1944.
She is survived by twin daughters Carolyn Archbold, DeRidder, LA, and Marilyn Moore, Austin, TX. Grandchildren are James Pittman, De Queen, Dr. Jeffrey Martindale, Stillwater, OK; Jonathan Martindale, Austin, Roy Archbold, Gulf Port and Christi Archbold, Gulf Port and four great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at Belleville Methodist Church on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. Burial will follow in the Belleville Cemetery, under the direction of Wilkerson Funeral Home in De Queen.
Contributed on 7/24/18 by MryAl8
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