Mildred Agatha Field, 82

Mildred Agatha Millie Field, 82, passed away May 11, 2010, at Kalispell Regional Medical Center, from natural causes. Mildred A. Woehler was born June 14, 1927, to Walter and Iva Mae Woehler in Missoula and raised there, until her marriage on June 18, 1949, to George D. Field at his parents home in Deer Lodge. Millie worked as a cook at Hamburger King in Missoula, waitressed in restaurants in Deer Lodge, and then became a switchboard operator for Mountain States Telephone and a training operator, until the advent of dial phones. Millie worked as a clerk in the Registrar of Motor Vehicles and then transferred to switchboard operator at Montana State Prison, later becoming supervisor of communications and the mail department. George and Millie moved to Las Vegas in 1970, where she became a switchboard operator for the Bank of Nevada. They returned to Montana in June 1972. They purchased property in Ferndale, near Bigfork, when she went to work for Conrad Bank in Kalispell (First Interstate Bank) until her retirement in 1991. Millie was preceded in death by her parents, and her only brother, Donald. She is survived by her husband, George; stepsister, Francis McAndrew; stepniece, Francis Trainor, sister-in-law, Margie Lund, and Paul; nephew, Richard Woehler, and Sandee, and sons, Ryan and Aaron; niece, Caroline Scharffenberg, and Bob; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Richard and Loretta Field, and sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Eileen and Wayne Grove. Millie loved to roller skate as a teenager in Missoula and loved each of her jobs. She loved cocker spaniels and always had one or two in her home. She had a tender heart for all animals, and was especially fond of the bull elk visitor to their yard (Ferdinand), the deer (Sweet Mama and her offspring), and the turkeys. Per her wishes, she was cremated and asked for no services. Millie had a wonderful sweet spirit and will be greatly missed.