Funeral services for Calvin “Mutt” Fielder, age 93, of Brownwood, will be at 10:30 AM, Saturday, January 5, 2012 in the Austin Avenue Church of Christ. Burial will follow at 3:00 PM at the Bethel Cemetery in Anson under the direction of Heartland Funeral Home of Early. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday evening from 6:00 until 8:00.
Cal passed from this life on Tuesday, January 1, 2013 in a local nursing home.
Calvin Mitchell “Mutt” Fielder was born on November 21, 1919 in Jones County to Walter Dee and Callie Mitchell Fielder in their farmhouse with the help of a midwife. He attended Anson schools and graduated with honors in 1939.
Uncle Sam called him and he volunteered for the U. S. Army Air Corps on September 14, 1941. After he became a Staff Sergeant, he married the love of his life Mary Gladys Williamson on November 20, 1942.
Cal’s duty stations included Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, Waco Air Base, Waco, Texas and finally in the China-Burma-India Theater. He received an honorable discharge in January 1946.
Calvin and Mary made their home in many places after he began working at Montgomery Ward in Waco in 1946. He served as a store manager for 37+ years with stops in Waco, Austin, Houston, Brownwood, Abilene, Kansas, Ardmore, Oklahoma, and Cushing, Oklahoma.
After retirement from Wards in 1984, the Fielders chose Brownwood as their home. After three months of retirement, Cal was ready to go back to work. He began his second career as a door greeter for Wal-Mart. This career spanned 26 years before his retirement in July of 2011 at age 91.
Cal loved fishing, hunting, and trailering to many different places. He was a people person and never met a stranger.
He was a member of the Austin Avenue Church of Christ, where he served as a deacon for many years who greeted people as they came into the worship service.
He loved his family, including in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews. He was loved by all.
Cal was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, Dee, Lloyd, John and Bill; a niece De Anne Marshall, sister-in-law, Annette Dowdle, and a brother-in-law, Sherman Newton.
He is survived by his loving wife of 70 years, Mary, a son, Larry Mitchell Fielder and Juanita, daughter, Diane Patrice Mosley, grandson, Ryan Spencer Mosley and wife Lori, great-grandsons, Nathan and Aaron Mosley, nephew, Joe Arnold Fielder and wife Gayla, sister-in-law, Nancy Laura Newton, brother-in-law, Clyde Dowdle and wife, and a niece Wanda Burns.
The family requests that memorials be made in Cal’s memory to Cherokee Home for Children, P.O. Box 295, Cherokee, 76832-0295.
Condolences can be offered to the family at www.heartlandfuneralhome.net.