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In 1951, Mayfield married the former Dorothy McLain in Hart in Castro County. Active in community affairs, he was a former president of the Dimmitt Rodeo Association and was a member of the Fair Board. He was also affiliated with the Panhandle Blue Grass Association. He was a [[Baptist]]. Two weeks prior to Mayfield's death, the  Blue Grass Museum in Owensboro, [[Kentucky]], interviewed him in Dimmitt in preparation for a documentary film on the Mayfield musical family.<ref name="obit"/>​

In 1951, Mayfield married the former Dorothy McLain in Hart in Castro County. Active in community affairs, he was a former president of the Dimmitt Rodeo Association and was a member of the Fair Board. He was also affiliated with the Panhandle Blue Grass Association. He was a [[Baptist]]. Two weeks prior to Mayfield's death, the  Blue Grass Museum in Owensboro, [[Kentucky]], interviewed him in Dimmitt in preparation for a documentary film on the Mayfield musical family.<ref name="obit"/>​

 

For much of his adult life, Mayfield was a welder for [[cattle]] feedlots. He and his wife supported student [[scholarship]]s for those pursuing the study of Bluegrass music at South Plains College in Levelland in Hockley County west of Lubbock. South Plains honored Herbert and Smokey Mayfield in a special ceremony in 1989 as pioneers of Bluegrass music.<ref name=obit/> Susan Dailey, the recipient of a Mayfield scholarship in 1993, recalled Mayfield as "an inspiration to me as a mandolin student. ... The stories of his early musical years on the Green Valley Ranch also fascinated me as a musician and as a visual [[artist]].... I feel fortunate to have been acquainted with Herb. He was a wonderful man.... "<ref>Susan Dailey, Herbert Mayfield Guest Book, Colonial Funeral Home, Dimmitt, Texas, June 2, 2008.</ref>​

For much of his adult life, Mayfield was a welder for [[cattle]] feedlots. He and his wife supported student [[scholarship]]s for those pursuing the study of Bluegrass music at South Plains College in Levelland in Hockley County west of Lubbock. South Plains honored Herbert and Smokey Mayfield in a special ceremony in 1989 as pioneers of Bluegrass music.<ref name=obit/> Susan Dailey, the recipient of a Mayfield scholarship in 1993, recalled Mayfield as "an inspiration to me as a mandolin student. ... The stories of his early musical years on the Green Valley Ranch also fascinated me as a musician and as a visual [[artist]].... I feel fortunate to have been acquainted with Herb. He was a wonderful man.... "<ref>Susan Dailey, Herbert Mayfield Guest Book, Colonial Funeral Home, Dimmitt, Texas, June 2, 2008.</ref>​

 

Mayfield died at the age of eighty-seven of renal failure in an Amarillo hospital.<ref name="obit"/> Some three months later, his brother Smokey died of a [[heart attack]], a complication from neuropathy. Edd Mayfield died of [[leukemia]] in 1958 at the age of thirty-two in Bluefield, [[West Virginia]], while he was on tour with Bill Monroe.<ref name="obit"/> Services for Herb Mayfield were held on June 1, 2008, at the First Baptist Church of Dimmitt. Burial was in Hart Cemetery in Hart.<ref name="obit"/>​

Mayfield died at the age of eighty-seven of renal failure in an Amarillo hospital.<ref name="obit"/> Some three months later, his brother Smokey died of a [[heart attack]], a complication from neuropathy. Edd Mayfield died of [[leukemia]] in 1958 at the age of thirty-two in Bluefield, [[West Virginia]], while he was on tour with Bill Monroe.<ref name="obit"/> Services for Herb Mayfield were held on June 1, 2008, at the First [[Baptist]] Church of Dimmitt. Burial was in Hart Cemetery in Hart.<ref name="obit"/>​

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