OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A man well known by many who have stepped foot inside the Oklahoma County Courthouse lied in honor on their second floor Monday morning. Cleo Fields, a shoe shiner on the courthouse’s first floor for nearly 30 years is the first person to ever do so there.
“I just thank God for him. He was here for me,” Fields’s son Eickey said at the ceremony. “I really love the courthouse because they really love him. We loved him.”
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“Everyone was in total agreement and thought it was a fitting tribute to an amazing man,” County Commissioner Brian Maughan said when talking about Fields lying in honor at the courthouse.
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Maughan knew him well and compared it to Broadway dimming their lights for a man who’s contributions to those around him can’t be understated…