March 12, 2005
See photos from Mom's Memorial Service at which I read Tom's eulogy and my Remembrances and Reflections. I visited the graves again today on March 12, 2005 and took a few more pictures and measured off some distances in the graveyard. Granddad Harold Mayfield (1900 - 1949) and Grandma Golda C. Mayfield (1898 - 1988) are buried 46 paces back from a road well north of the Mausoleum, in line with the Λ-shaped roof of the Old Mission Mausoleum at 3424 E. 21st just north of the WSU football stadium. If you get in back of the main mausoleum on 21st street, you can find a sidewalk going north that runs through a Garden of Prayer set of praying hands. Continuing on north, you find a Masonic Monument on top of which there is an open book. The legend at its base is shown on the Family Graves 2 page: To that bright spirit world above where Virtue lives love never dies.
Here the "V" is no doubt the open book. If you continue north on that sidewalk from the Masonic Monument, you come to a road. 15 paces to the east of it one finds three rock monuments: The Garden of Devotion, a marker monument, and The Garden of the Good Sheperd. The Mayfields are buried between the two gardens, centered on the centerpiece rock, which is lined up with the big "V" of the roof of the Old Mission Mausoleum. One walks north from this central rock monument until one comes to the road. Forty-six paces back from the road is the Mayfield grave, just south of Jones. To the west is the grave of Bond. To the east is the grave of Reploggle. To the south is the grave of Gladys Shelton. Otherwise, I note that 16 paces west of the north-south line of graves associated with the Mayfield grave, is the stone bench of Hanks - Logue. So you can also drive in on the road, find the bench of Hanks with the "Hanks" facing the road, then march 16 paces east to the Mayfield line of graves, which is well- indented from the road and today begins with Frank Cunningham's gravestone. Again, the Mayfields are 46 paces back from the road, and due west of them is the Bond grave, forming a "Mayfield-Bond" or "May field bond" link. The peak of the Mausoleum "Λ" seems to be directly between the two graves. You may need these directions sometime to find the graves of our ancestors. John Mayfield (1924 - 1999) is buried beside Doris Ruth Peterson (1928 - 1991) on the West side of the roadway running past the office of the Quiring Old Mission Mausoleum on East side of the building. I find it is about 76 paces north of the Old Mission Mausoleum building offices, and just 17 paces south of a sidewalk headed west across the cemetary to the Praying Hands sculpture. The Praying Hands sculpture is approximately 85 paces south of the Masonic monument described in the first section of this letter. Uncle Chuck (Charles R. Mayfield, 1927 - 1976), is buried at eyeball level west of the main entrance just east of the 2nd front doorway in the first east-west hall.

Mom and Dad's Flowers after Inurnment.

Mom and Dad are inurned in the wooden wall of that same east-west hallway on the north side of the hall, but on the west side of the 2nd front doorway to the west of the central main entrance. I believe their niche is in the 2nd column of wood-front niches. Maggie and Kathleen sent the magnificent boquet of yellow flowers and green stems that dominates the front of the James A. Green Jr. - Ruth Green memorial inurnment niche. At the top of their column of niches is a niche marked Keck, which reminds me of the huge Keck telescopes in Hawaii. See Family Graves 1-3 .