Hazel Laverne Anderson was born March 19, 1923 in Colonia Chuachupa Chihuahua, Mexico to William and Myrtle Palmer Anderson. She passed from this life on February 12, 2009 at Enid, Oklahoma. She grew to woman hood in the beautiful mountains where she had many "lookout places" to set and ponder her dreams. When she was nine years old her father brought home a treadle organ for the family and she learned to play music by ear and also to cord the guitar and to play a harmonica. She and her younger sister played music and sang on many an occasion together and made the "hills ring with music."

As a young girl of seventeen she was very active in the L.D.S. Church, in Mexico, being a Sunday school teacher, teaching in primary and was 1st Counselor in M.I.A. and playing the piano for Sacrament meetings. Hazel was a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints, at Woodward, Oklahoma.

At the age of eighteen years of age she left Mexico, and went to Santa Monica, California where she worked at Douglas Aircraft on the B-54 Fighter planes. She attended dances at Venice Pier and met her husband to be. On January 3, 1943 in MarVista, California she was united in marriage to James E. Fields, from Gage, Oklahoma who was stationed in the United States Army. In 1945 Hazel came to Oklahoma with her husband who had been stationed in the Aleutian Islands. James and Hazel were blessed with three children, James Rodney "Jimmie", Linda Sue, and Johnnie Ray. Later in years she was blessed with one beautiful granddaughter, Krista Rachelle Fields, and just before her passing she experienced the joy of the birth of her first great-grandson, Kaden Riley Woodard.

Her greatest joy was gardening and canning food for the family and felt she could not do enough for her children, she loved them dearly and they were her life.

Hazel was preceded in death by her parents, her husband James, son Jimmie, three sisters and two brothers. She is survived by daughter Linda Bonin, son Johnnie Fields, granddaughter Krista Fields, and great-grandson Kaden Riley Woodward all of Gage, Oklahoma; sister Verda Johns of salt Lake City, Utah; brothers Melvin Anderson and wife Estella of Roswell, New Mexico and Joseph Anderson and wife Nancy of El Capitan, New Mexico; sister-in-law Ella Anderson of Mesa, Arizona; other family and a host of friends.

"Now I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my redeemer for I know that in him, I shall rest and rejoice in the day when my mortal body shall put on mortality, and shall stand before him, then shall I see his face with pleasure and he shall unto me, Come unto me, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father."