It took an adjustment to the still-new policy, but “everybody’s friend,” Cleo Fields the shoeshine man, will be the first person to lie in state at the Oklahoma County Courthouse.
County commissioners made it official with two separate votes at their meeting Wednesday, July 30, with several of Fields’ numerous descendants in attendance.
Fields will lie in state at the courthouse from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4…