Death and Family
Field died in 1956 of brain cancer. His widow and third wife, Ruth Pruyn Field, who had previously been married to sportsman Ogden Phipps, died on January 25, 1994 at age eighty-six. They had two daughters, Phyllis Field and Fiona Field. By his first wife Evelyn Marshall he had daughters Barbara Field and Bettina Field and son Marshall Field IV. By his second wife, of whom he was the second husband, Audrey Evelyn James (April 21, 1902 - February 14, 1968), whom he married on August 18, 1930 and divorced in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, in 1934, he left no issue.
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