Smokey Mayfield - Extended Family

Extended Family

In 1951, Smokey Mayfield married the former Mary Keenum (born August 5, 1934), originally from Hale Center in Hale County. The couple met while Smokey was playing Bluegrass in Lubbock. They wed in Cleburne in Johnson County in east central Texas. Mary formerly operated a flower shop. Mayfield died of a heart attack at home after fighting a long battle against neuropathy. He was Baptist, but services were held at his wife's congregation, the Church of Christ in Spearman. Interment, with military honors, was at Hansford Cemetery in Spearman.

In addition to Mary, he was survived by two sons, James Clinton "Clint" Mayfield (born February 28, 1952), a United States Postal Service employee in Amarillo, and wife Eileen N. Mayfield (also born 1952), and Freddie Calvin Mayfield (born December 28, 1949) and wife Janice W. Mayfield (born 1955) of Spearman; three daughters, Cynthia Arlece Knox and husband Ted of Stinnett, the seat of Hutchinson County, Loretta Diane Reed and husband Roy of Chickaloon, Alaska, and Harriett Palmer and husband Charlie of Pleasanton in Atascosa County near San Antonio, and nine grandchildren, including namesake Arlie Vincent Mayfield, II (born 1988), a student at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; 14 great-grandchildren; and one brother, James F. "Jim" Mayfield (born 1917), a retired rancher from Playas in Hidalgo County in southwestern New Mexico. Fred Mayfield, a ranch manager himself, was actually the birth son of Edd Mayfield and his wife, the former Jo McLain, since Jo Butler of Atwater, California, but Fred was reared by Smokey and Mary Mayfield after the sudden death of his father.