Submitted by: Dan Rich

Harold Eugene Mayes

May 16, 1934 - Sept. 5, 1999

South Bend Tribune 9/10/1999

Following a 10 a.m. visitation, funeral services for Harold Mayes will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, in St. Paul Bethel Baptist Church, with interment following at Riverview Ceme-tery. Mr. Harold Eugene Mayes, 65, was called to rest at 8:30 p.m. on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 5, in the Cardinal Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born an only child in Mounds City, Ill., to William and Araena Mayes. His father, William, preceded him in death. The Cobb Funeral Home, 3525 S. Michigan Street, South Bend, has been entrusted with arrangements.

Harold moved to South Bend as a youth and, upon graduation from Central High School, he joined the U.S. Army on May 21, 1957. An honorably discharged veteran, he returned to South Bend and had most recently been an employee of the Clark Equipment Company for 18 years, until his retirement. He was a member of St. Paul Bethel Baptist Church where he was baptized on Jan. 5, 1992, and had given his life to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Harold was a very loving and caring husband, father, son and a friend to many. If you were in need of someone to talk to, Harold would always be there, willing to lend an ear.

Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Bessie (Holt); mother, Araena Mayes of South Bend; daughter, Monica Mayes Parker of Atlanta, Ga.; son, Jessie Mayes of South Bend; two stepdaughters, Thelma Williams of Los Angeles, Calif., and Addie Morris of South Bend; two stepsons, Melvin Lawrence of Atlanta and Bobby Lawrence of Bossier City, La.; a half sister, Judy Perry of South Bend; and a host of other family members and friends. Harold Eugene Mayes will be missed by many.