Introduction to Strawberry Fields: Strawberry Fields is the site of John Lennon's widow. In order to commemorate her husband's assassination in 1980, Yoko Ono funded the renovation in front of the Dakota Building where she lived (and where Lennon was murdered). Drop Garden. Because this garden has donations from all over the world, it is called the "International Garden of Peace". Every year on December 8 (the day Lennon was murdered), Beatles fans from all over the world gather here to commemorate him and look at Dakota's old home in the distance.