Rev. Daryl Mayfield, the 51-year-old minister of the Trenton First Christian Church, died at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday May 12, 2006 at the Heartland East Hospital in St. Joseph, where he had been a patient for the past three weeks.
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Rev. Daryl Mayfield, the 51-year-old minister of the Trenton First Christian Church, died at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday May 12, 2006 at the Heartland East Hospital in St. Joseph, where he had been a patient for the past three weeks.
Funeral services will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 15, 2006 at the First Christian Church in Trenton. Burial will be on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 in Tulsa, OK.
There is no scheduled family visitation planned at the Whitaker Eads Funeral Home in Trenton.
Rev. Mayfield was born on May 16, 1954 at Tulsa, OK, the son of Gary and Lorene Branaugh Mayfield. He was raised at Tulsa and graduated from Will Rogers High School. He was married in Enid, OK on May 8, 1976 to Ann Firkins, who survives of the home.
He attended Phillips University at Enid and graduated with a BMA degree in music education. He held several jobs in the Enid and Tulsa area before he entered the ministry. He attended and graduated from the Phillips Theological Seminary at Tulsa. After seminary school, he was the minister of music and then associate minister of the East Side Christian Church in Tulsa. He then moved to Harrison, AR, where he was the senior minister of the First Christian Church for five years. He then served as the interim associate regional minister in Little Rock, AR, for one year. He moved to Trenton in 2001 as the minister of the First Christian Church.
He was a member of the First Christian Church in Trenton, the Trenton Ministerial Alliance and the Green Hills Soccer Club.
Rev. Mayfield is survived by his wife, Ann Mayfield of the home in Trenton; a daughter, Christine Mayfield of Tulsa; two sons, Matthew Mayfield and Scott Mayfield of Trenton; his father, Gary Mayfield of Tulsa; a brother, Steve Mayfield of Tulsa; and a sister, Sharren Hall of Broken Arrow, OK.
He was preceded in death by his mother.
The family has suggested memorial contributions be left to the First Christian Church.