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Irene was born on February 3, 1920 to Otto and Laura (Petrie) Zamzow in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She received her formal education there, graduating in 1937. She was employed as secretary to the superintendent of schools in Stevens Point from 1937 until 1941 when she accepted a position with the war department in Washington, DC as a civil servant. There she worked at various secretarial and bookkeeping jobs. In 1946, she married Milo K Fields of Plainfield, Wisconsin. They moved to Harvey, North Dakota in 1952 where Milo managed the Harvey Herald and in 1956 they bought the Glacier Reporter in Browning, Montana. Irene was an honorary adopted member of the Blackfeet Tribe with the given name of Medicine Pipe Smoking Woman. They sold the newspaper in 1969 and moved to Shelby in 1970, where they were both employed by the Shelby Promoter. Milo later retired due to ill health and died in 1994. Irene continued to work as a proofreader for the Promoter until she retired in 1999. In September of the same year, having suffered a second stroke, she moved to North Dakota to live with her daughter, Sandra, husband Ron, and granddaughter Kristi Babb. Irene was an avid reader, adept at cross-stitching, and enjoyed bowling. She also volunteered with the Red Cross, the United Way and the Alzheimer’s Association.
Irene is survived by a son,
Patrick (Diana) Fields of Kevin; daughter, Sandra (Ron) Babb of
West Fargo, North Dakota; sisters, Lenora (Phil)
Bruski of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, and
Helen Heaton of Thousand Oaks, California; brother, Otto (Dawn)
Zamzow of Plover, Wisconsin; as well
as five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and numerous
nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents,
two brothers, Richard and Earl Zamzow,
and a sister, Loretta Henning. |
Irene
A Fields, 85, former long-time resident of Shelby, MT,
passed away September 21, 2005 of natural causes at HCR Manor
Care Nursing Home in