Wathena Reagor Mayfield

 United States

  • Date Of Birth: March 6, 1923
  • Date Of Death: January 4, 2021
  • State: Indiana

Wathena Reagor Mayfield passed peacefully in her sleep on January 4, 2021 at the age of 97. Born March 6, 1923 into a sharecropping family in the Bootheel of Missouri.  She was proceeded in death by four sisters, a brother and often referred to herself as the “last leaf on the tree”.  Growing up during hard times my mother always said that during the depression being a farmer was not all bad. “We had food,” she said, “when so many others did not.

 

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