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ROBERT GRANVILLE MAYS OBIITUARY
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© Shawnee News Star




ROBERT GRANVILLE MAYS
1921 - 2000


Robert Granville Mays, former Oklahoma Baptist University faculty member and librarian and Shawnee elementary teacher, died Thursday in Prague. He was 79.
Mays was born August 5, 1921, in Prague, the son of Jess S. and Callie Harris Mays.
He graduated from Prague High School in 1939 as the valedictorian.
He worked for the Prague Record and then served in the Army Air Corps in North Africa and Italy during World War II. Following the war, he attended OBU, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in English.
He then attended the University of Oklahoma, where he earned the bachelor of arts degree in library science and the master of arts degree in English. Mays began working at OBU in 1951 as an English teacher and reference librarian.
He was named librarian in 1963 and held that post until 1972, when he resigned to begin a career as an elementary teacher.
He taught in Prague and in Shawnee at Will Rogers, Acme and Washington Schools.
He married Nelda Loafman in Prague on May 28, 1971.
He was a member of Phi Eta Sigma and Omicron Delta Kappa.
In 1998, he was inducted into the OBU Athletic Hall of Fame, recognition for serving for 25 years as official scorekeeper and statistician for the OBU Bison basketball team.
Mays had been a member of the First Baptist Church of Prague since he was a teenager.
He was a Sunday school teacher for 48 years, and he served as a deacon and song leader.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Chester Mays and three sisters, Leila Mays Clarence, Ruth Mays and Wanda Mays.
Survivors include his wife, Nelda, of the home; brother and sister-in-law, James Franklin and Joyce Mays, Hartsboro, Pennsylvania; three sisters-in-law, Berniece Callan, Bartlesville; Eunice DeWeber, Edmond; and Jackie Loafman, Livingston, Texas; nephews, Michael and Richard Mays and niece, Kathy Staerk.
Services will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church of Prague with Tim Emmons and Dr. J. P. Dane, officiating.
Burial will be in Prague Cemetery under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Oklahoma Baptist University or the First Baptist Church of Prague.
Published August 12, 2000.


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