Marjory Helen (Wampler) MAYFIELD

MAYFIELD, WAMPLER, FISHER, ECKELBERGER, OZIMEK, MAGERKURTH, BOOTH, SHERRITT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/20/2007 at 09:56:54

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Montana

24 June 1924 -- 17 October 1997
Marjory Helen (Wampler) Mayfield died October 17, 1997 at Arlington, Virginia after a long illness. She was the daughter of a Methodist Minister, Walter Christian Wampler, and Helena Conradina Wilhemine Magerkurth. She was born at Brockton, MA on June 24, 1924. Her family lived in Shelby, Chinook, Glendive, Great Falls and Bozeman. After attending MacMurry College, College of Great Falls and Montana State University, she graduated from the University of Montana with a B.A. in English. She was a member of the Alpha Omicrom Pi sorority. In her early years she played the piano, organ, the violin and sang. She was a knitter and made many afghans and sweaters. She was known for her wit and in her later years for being an avid rock an mineral collector. Late in life she spent many happy hours working on family genealogies.

She married Lewis G. Mayfield on January 3, 1947 (the high was 20 below zero that day) in Bozeman. They lived at Eagle Grove, Iowa for two years, Laramie, Wyoming, two years and in Bozeman from 1951- 62 where her husband was on the Chemical Engineering Staff at Montana State. Her husband then joined the National Science Foundation and they moved to Arlington, VA. She is survived by her husband of Arlington, her daughter, Joan Hellen Mayfield, Washington D.C.; her son Keith Christian Mayfield, and his wife Sandra Booth and their childern, Julia Ruth and Eli Christian, of Atlanta GA; her niece Krista Fisher, of Los Angeles, and a Grandniece, Lahna Eckelberger of Milkien, CO. Also surviving are uncle, Norman Wampler and his wife Martha of Austin, TX, and her sister-in-law, Janice Mayfield Ozimek, and her husband Henry Ozimek, of Brick, NJ. She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Pauline Mavis Sherritt. She was cremated and will be interred at the Forsyth, MT Cemetery, after the ground thaws next spring. Memorials, in lieu of flowers, can be made to the Alzheimer's Research Center, 640 Jackson Street, St Paul, MN 55101. All funds received go toward research.