Lifelong Prague resident Carl Ernest Mayes died Saturday in Prague. He was 91.

Mr. Mayes was born February 14, 1908, in Arlington, Oklahoma, to Ernest and Parry Johnson Mayes.

He married Della Jones on March 19, 1929 in Tecumseh.

He was a retired farmer and carpenter and was a member of the Deer Creek Baptist Church and the IOOF Lodge.

Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Glen and Earlene Mayes and Wayne and Wanda Mayes, all of Prague, brothers and sisters-in-law, Otis and Gladys Jones of McAlester, Boyce and Agnes Williams and Bruce and Doris Huff, all of Prague, Lovie Ellison of Prague, Ella Broyles of Tulsa; Florence Broyles and Verna Heinzig, both of Phoenix, Arizona; grandchildren, Dale and Frances Cowen, Shawnee; David Cowen, Oklahoma City; Diana Green, Texas; Darlene and Steve Richardson, Donna and Johnny Thomas, Regina and Bobby Martin, and Sheila and Thomas Krauter, all of Prague; fourteen great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his wife on November 8, 1992, his parents, one sister, two brothers, one daughter, Wanda Cowen Landrith in 1988 and one great-grandson.

Services will be 2:00 p.m. today at Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel, Prague, with the Rev. Ellis Risenhoover officiating with James Heinzig assisting.

Burial will follow in the Prague Cemetery.

Published July 13, 1999.