Betty Jane Williams Fields
2023
Betty Jane Williams Fields, 99, of Cumberland passed away peacefully Monday, October 2, 2023, at the Tri Cities Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born on April 30, 1924 to the late Paul Jefferson and Leeta Blanche Marcum Williams. Betty was the oldest child and born in Norton, Virginia. She was around 5 years old when her family moved to Cumberland. She left high school her junior year and at the age of 16, married her sweetheart, Edward. They had four children. Betty was a stay at home mother until 1951, when she and Edward became the owners and operators of Fields Grain and Feed, a store that was started by her father-in-law years earlier. Years later, she decided to go back to...