- 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.