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Obituary of William V. Fielder

Galax Gazette Volume: 90 Issue: 16 Edition: 1 Date: 1966-02-24

W. V. Fielder Has Attack- Dies in Wreck

News was received late Tuesday, Feb. 22, by Mrs. George F. Fielder of the Fallville community, that her brother, William V. Fielder, of Beaverdam, Va., Hanover County, suffered a heart attack and died as his car was wrecked Tuesday. As no other details have yet been learned
here, it Is not known whether his death was caused by the
accident.

Mr. Fielder, a graduate of Elk Creek High School and V.P.I Blacksburg, was a Vocational Agriculture teacher in North Carolina and elsewhere for some years, before he became an employee of Southern States. He retired only a few years ago, and has since resided, with Mrs. Fielder, at Beaverdam.

He was a son of the late G.K. Fielder and wife, Mrs. Etta McCarter Fielder, of Fallville. No information concerning funeral arrangements was available at Gazette press time.

Galax Gazette Volume: 90 Issue: 18 Edition: 1 Date: 1966-03-03

Rites for W. V. Fielder, Long with Southern States, Grayson Native, Held in Hanover County

Funeral services were conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday (February 24) at Fork Episcopal Church, in Hanover County, for William V. Fielder, 66, resident of Beaverdam, Hanover County, and Grayson County native, who died in a traffic collision Tuesday, February 22, 1966.

Interment was in the church cemetery. The body rested at Crew and
Clayton Funeral Home in Ashland, also in Hanover County, before the services.

Mr. Fielder was born in Grayson County, in the Fallville community, to the late Guy K. Fielder and wife, Mrs. Etta McCarter Fielder. According to information received here, police reported that Mr. Fielder's car
apparently swerved across the road, about three miles north of Ashland, colliding with another vehicle.

Two men in the other car, Carl Hubert Walker, 51, of Washington, and Lomas Walker, of New York, were injured. They were admitted to
St. Philip Hospital, where their conditions were undetermined Tuesday night.

It has been learned here that the medical examiner's report indicated that Mr. Fielder was dead when the collision occurred. It was, therefore, considered very likely that the collision was due to Mr. Fielder having been suddenly seized by a fatal heart attack.

Having graduated from Elk Creek High School In Grayson County, Mr. Fielder attended V. P. I., Blacksburg, where he also graduated. For several years, he was engaged in Vocational Agriculture education. During this period of service, he taught Agriculture at Woodleaf (N. C.) High School, in Rowan County, and at Harmony (N. C.) High
School, in Iredell County. He joined Southern States Co­operative in 1934 as an assistant district manager, and rose to the position of manager of the seed service division of Southern States in 1946. This position he held until he retired on February 1, 1965, after a 31-year period with Southern States. He taught Vocational Agriculture for ten
years before going with Southern States, or about from 1924, soon after his graduation at V. P. I., to 1934.

He was twice named Master Teacher of Agriculture in North Carolina, and at Woodleaf he organized the Woodleaf Certified Seed Growers Association, a co­operative venture to promote the production, use and marketing of improved field seeds.

It was this achievement that brought Mr. Fielder to the attention of SSC management, and led to his joining the organization. After a brief period of service as a district manager with SSC in northern Virginia and at Towson, Md., he was moved to Baltimore, Md., and became manager of the Co-operative Seed and Farm Supply Service there.

From then until he moved to Richmond in 1946 and was named to head the SSC seed service division, he aided in the development and expansion of the SCC's seed and farm supply services.

He was serving, at the time of his retirement, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Crop Improvement Association, an organization once headed by the late Gov. Westmoreland Davis, of Leesburg, and as a member of the Legislative Committee of the American Seed Trade Association.

Mr. Fielder was a member of historic Fork Episcopal Church near Beaverdam, which is 27 miles from Richmond. He and Mrs. Fielder,
also a Grayson County native, had resided for some time on their farm in the Beaverdam community. The Fielder farm is a seed, lawn turf and
livestock operation.

He was a member of the Beaverdam Ruritan Club. Mr. Fielder was born at the Mr. Fielder was born at the old G.K. Fielder home place at Fallvllle, one of twin brothers, on January 23, 1900. The other twin brother, Steven Randolph Fielder, died February 14, 1900.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bessie Taylor Fielder, William V. Fielder, Jr., of Frederick, Md., an industrial designer, and Dr. Joe J. Fielder, of Richmond, a veterinarian; three sisters, Mrs. George F. (Susan) Fielder, of Rt. 1, Elk Creek (Fallvllle community) Mrs. Burchell B.(Corra) Taylor, of Ellzabethton, Tenn. and Mrs. John A. (Esther) Craft, of Neon, Ky.; two brothers, Samuel B. Fielder, of Rocks, Md., and Edward K. Fielder, of Miami, Fla., and six grandchildren.

Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Craft attended the funeral rites for Mr. Fielder at Beaverdam. (Mr. Fielder was a nephew of the late R. C. Fielder, of
Fallvllle, who also resided at Elk Creek and In Galax. He was
a first-cousin of John R. Fielder, Bayne G. Fielder and Mrs. W. Roger Rector, all of Galax, as well as of the late Wythe F. Wampler and the late Rev. French Wampler.)

Residence	1900	Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia
Residence	1900	Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia
Residence	1900	Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia
Birth	23 Jan 1900	Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia
Residence	1910	Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia
Residence	1910	Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia
Residence	1910	Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia
Residence	1920	Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia
Marriage	2 Aug 1923	Bessie Taylor
Death	22 Feb 1966	Richmond, Virginia

Spouse	Bessie Taylor (1902 - 1995)
Child	William Van Buren "Bill" Fielder Jr. (1924 - 2000)
Child	Joseph Jean Fielder (1927 - 1997)

Father	Guy Kenley Fielder (1863 - 1937)
Mother	Mary Etta McCarter (1865 - 1927)
Sibling	Elizabeth Belle "Lizzie" Fielder (1885 - )
Sibling	Ira Lee Fielder (1886 - 1887)
Sibling	Lillie Mae Fielder (1888 - 1952)
Sibling	Lara Sanders Fielder (1889 - 1892)
Sibling	Susan Virginia Fielder (1891 - 1975)
Sibling	Corrie Ella Fielder (1893 - 1991)
Sibling	Esther C. Fielder (1895 - 1998)
Sibling	Samuel B. Fielder (1897 - 1987)
Sibling	Stephen Randolph Fielder (1900 - 1900)
Sibling	Guy Edward Kirkbridge Fielder (1902 - 1975)
Sibling	Edd C. Fielder (1903 - )