Annie Mayfield

Annie Modine (Hap) Mayfield, 93, Playas, N.M., passed away on July 29, 2011, at Mountain View Hospital in Las Cruces, N.M.

She was born February 12, 1918 in Lubbock, Texas, to Perry and Pearl Barnes. She graduated from Sudan High School, Sudan, Texas, and was married to J. F. (Jim) Mayfield in Sudan on March 12, 1938. They moved to La Plata County Colorado in 1938, and ranched in the southern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico area until 1990, when they moved to Hidalgo County, in southwestern New Mexico to a family ranching operation. She was a lifetime rancher and ranch wife with her priorities in life being family, her faith and ranching. She was a member of National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, American Quarter Horse Association, New Mexico Cattle Growers Association, Hidalgo County Cattle Grower’s Association and Tobosa Belles.

Annie is survived by her husband Jim, son James (Butch) and his wife, Amanda of Playas, N.M., granddaughter Leann Saunders, husband John, children; Kenneth, Hannah and Katie of Castle Rock, Colo., granddaughter Melinda Birkeland, husband Clay, children; Riley, Cain and Payson of Belle Fourche, S.D., two sisters Clara Carter of Midland, Texas, Opal Lechner of Ignacio, Colo., sister-in-law, Gladys Barnes, Ignacio, Colo., and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives of the Barnes and Mayfield families.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 6, 2011, at the Crestview Memorial Gardens in Falfa, Colo. Memorial donations may be sent in her name to Cal Farleys Boys Ranch, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX 79174.