Josephine (Berkley) Mays
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Alfred G. Mays
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Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - September 6, 1935
PIONEER EAGLE COUNTY LADY DIES IN FT. COLLINS.
Mrs. Josephine Berkley MAYS died at the home of her daughter in Fort Collins, Thursday August 29, at the age of 72, and was buried at Fort Collins Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. MAYS, a sister for former County Judge Mrs. Lydia B. TAGUE, was one of the pioneers of Colorado and of Eagle county. Her husband was a physician in Victor and Red Cliff in the eighties and nineties. Following his death in 1909 [sic 1907], Mrs. MAYS took up school teaching, holding positions in Red Cliff, Victor, Brush and Monument, and was recognized as one of the leading educators of the state. For outstanding work in the schools of El Paso county, Mrs. MAYS was awarded a life certificate to teach a number of years ago. At one time she was superintendent of schools in Teller county. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law in Fort Collins, and a sister, Mrs. Lydia B. TAGUE, long a resident of Eagle county, now residing at Olathe. She was an aunt of Mrs. Wm. J. MEEHAN of Eagle.
