Obit of John Stanley Mayes (m200) - Murray County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Dennis Muncrief  <mudman@cableone.net>  31 Dec 2003
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Surnames: Mayes

Originally posted at:
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John Stanley Mayes

Services for John Stanley Mayes, 80, Sulphur, were held December 31 at 
10:00 a.m. at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Eddie Malphrus 
officiating. Interment was at Oaklawn Cemetery under the direction of 
Cowley-Krien Funeral Home.

Stanley was born to John and Mary Ellen Ratliff Mayes September 17, 1923 
in Shawnee. He died December 28 at Arbuckle Memorial Hospital in Sulphur. 
He married Belva "Bea" Crary February 14, 1953 in Aklen, S.C.

He was raised in Shawnee. After graduating from high school, he joined the 
Navy and served 6 years during WWII. He lived and worked in South Carolina 
after the service, then moved to Sulphur in 1954. He was a painting 
contractor and retired from the Oklahoma School for the Deaf after 25 
years. Stanley loved to work on boats.

Preceding him in death were his mother and father; one brother, Marshall; 
one sister, Margaret; and a son-in-law, Butch Saunders.

Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Cindy Saunders, Sulphur, and Marci 
and husband, Mark McNeill, Thomas; five grandchildren, Steve and wife, 
Jerri D., Sulphur, Jake and wife, Andrea, Davis, Shelby and husband, Jimmy 
Brown, Sulphur, Mason McNeill, Weatherford and Morgan McNeill, Thomas; 
five great-grandchildren, Allie, Hannah, Autum, Josh and Derek.

Pallbearers were Steve Saunders, Jake Saunders, Mason McNeill, Morgan 
McNeill, Jimmie Brown and Russell Watson.
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