BOOKER T WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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MARY MARJORIE "Titty" MAYHUE,
65, of Memphis, died Monday, December 31, 2007 at Methodist North
Hospital. She was the youngest child of the late Edward C. Mayhue, Sr.
and Anna McGuire Mayhue. Marjorie was a graduate of B. T. Washington
High School, class of 1960, and LeMoyne-Owen College, class of 1964. She
was a social worker with the Tennessee Department of Public Welfare and
recently retired from the City of Memphis Division of Housing and
Community Development Homeless and Special Needs Department. She was
actively involved in the establishment of the Memphis chapter of The
National Association of Black Social Workers and also actively involved
in The Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare as well as other social
programs. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's and
70's and served as the president of The Memphis Regional Sickle Cell
Council at it's inception. During her tenure, The Council, in
collaboration with The University of Tennessee Center for the Health
Sciences, was responsible for the receipt of a federal grant that
enabled The Council to establish a community outreach program for sickle
cell and provided critical funding for The University of Tennessee
Sickle Cell Program. Marjorie leaves to celebrate her homegoing, her
mother, Anna McGuire Mayhue; her sister, Eleanor Ann Mayhue Buckley; her
brother, Edward C. Mayhue, Jr. and his wife, Mary Helen Mayhue; her
nieces, Marjorie Ann Buckley Branch; her stepmother, Frances Walker
Mayhue; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, all very dear
to her in their own special ways. Memorial services for Marjorie will be
held at N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home, 12 South Parkway West, Saturday,
January 5 at 11:30 a.m. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. N. J. Ford &
Sons Funeral Home 901-948-7755
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