Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Mexia Daily News - Sep. 28, 2004 edition

Ruby Mae (Griffin) Mayes

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruby Mae Griffin Mayes, 83, of Wortham, will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock in Beulah Missionary Baptist Church of
Wortham. Officiating will be the Rev. Lester Brown, pastor. Burial will be in
Wortham Cemetery, under direction of Moore's Angelic Funeral Home of Teague.

Mrs. Mayes, born in Freestone County on Aug. 22, 1921, died Thursday in
Providence Medical Center-Waco. She was a Federal Civil Service employee in
Fairbanks, Alaska, where she also was a member of the Order of the Eastern
Star.

Surviving are six step-children; three sisters, Gladys McMullen and Velma
Jackson, both of Wortham, and Thelma Pringle of Waco; a brother and
sister-in-law, McKinley and Bernice Griffin of El Paso; many nieces, nephews,
other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers are Larry Yarrell II, Stewart Coleman, Charles Ray Paris, Edgar
Paige, Jr., Dan Hurd, Sr., and Edgar Paige III.