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==Marriage and legacy==

==Marriage and legacy==

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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 Marie McLain (1931-2019) 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 scholarships 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 scholarships 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. He and his wife are interred at Hart Cemetery in Hart.<ref name="obit"/>​

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