Mayes, Marjorie Florence

Funeral services for Marjorie Florence Mayes, 80, of Longview, will be held at 10 a.m. 
Thursday, October 4, 2007, at Rader Funeral Home Chapel, with Dr. Howard Mayes officiating. 
Burial will follow in Rosewood Park Cemetery. Marjorie died Sunday, September 30, 2007, at 
her residence in Longview.

Marjorie was born November 11, 1926, in Long Beach, California. She attended Polytechnic 
High School and graduated from Pasadena College with a teaching degree in 1949. That same 
year, she married John Mayes and moved with him to Winona Lake, Indiana, where she taught 
first grade while her husband attended Grace Theological Seminary. Marjorie continued her 
teaching career when the couple moved back to California, also serving as the principal of 
Brethren Elementary School in Long Beach, California, during the 1960s. She ministered as 
a pastor's wife in churches in Long Beach and Whittier, California, and in Sunnyside, 
Washington.

Marjorie accompanied her husband, Dr. John Mayes, to Longview in 1983. Together, the couple 
founded Grace Christian School as a ministry of Grace Brethren Church, and Marjorie served 
as pastor's wife and as principal of the school. While she was much beloved in these roles, 
her family remember her best as a loving wife, mother and grandmother.

Marjorie is survived by her husband of 58 years, John of Longview; their four children, 
Richard Mayes and his wife, Sandy, Sharon Newlin and her husband, Stuart, Annie Olson and 
her husband, Ken, all of Longview, and Joy Dean and her husband, Steve of Indianapolis, 
Indiana; 17 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to Missionary Tech Team, 25 FRJ Drive, Longview, TX 75602.

A memorial guestbook may be signed at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 10/3/2007.