Dorothy Fields Warren was born June 5, 1929 in Panola County, Texas to Norman Lee and Mariah Brown Fields. She was the seventh of ten children.
Growing up she attended Shady Grove Community School and H.B. Pemberton High School where she loved reciting poetry and playing basketball. She often shared favorite poems and regaled her grandchildren with tales of her basketball athleticism.
At an early age Dorothy accepted Christ and was baptized at Old Bethel Baptist Church in Carthage, Texas.
On February 14, 1948 she married her high school sweetheart Earnest G. “Peepsy” Warren. To this union Venson Jevona, Beverly Lynn, Myrtle Ruth, and Joyce Marie were born.
Dorothy was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother; loving sister, beloved aunt and cousin.
She was also a skilled seamstress and avid sports enthusiast, who loved her Dallas Cowboys. She found joy in spending time with family, dancing, cooking, fishing and gardening and shared these activities with all she treasured.
Dorothy’s professional career in nutrition spanned decades. During which she worked at Hotel Marshall, Texas and Pacific Hospital, and Wiley College; retiring from the Department of Urban Housing and Development’s Office of Head Start in 1997.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband, daughters Myrtle Ruth Jewel and Joyce Marie Hicks; six sisters, Inez Jernigan, Earline Johnson, Myrtle Porterfield, Olean Elsey, Zaddie Adams, and Dolores Randall; two brothers, William Thomas Fields and Norman Benson Fields; and her parents.
Dorothy leaves to cherish her memory, her son, Venson J. Warren, daughter, Beverly L. Williams, one brother, Charles E. Fields (Mattie); two sisters-in-law, Jean Fields and Lucille “Doll” Fields; twelve grandchildren, Lashaunda Cain King (Ken) of Birmingham, Alabama, Damon Cain (Dominique) of Marietta, Georgia, Maisha Jewel of Marshall, Texas, Jewana Warren of Houston, Texas, Brandy Hicks Miller (Keith) of Forney, Texas, Bryce Hicks (Apryl) of Murrieta, California, Christopher Williams of Marshall, Texas, Steven Warren of Marshall, Texas, Sloan Hicks of Addison, Texas, Bryan Williams of Dallas, Texas, Jason Warren of Marshall, Texas, and Whitney Warren of Dallas, Texas; eighteen great grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.