Parents:
Dad: John Bryant Mayo
Mother: Eva Lavern Arnold


Jimmie "Jim" Bryant Mayo

Funeral services for Jimmie Bryant Mayo ,60,of Howe,Texas, were held at 1:pm Wednesday,January 17th,2007 at the Waldo Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. David Taylor officiating. Burial followed at the Garden Of Memory Cemetery in Colbert,Oklahoma.He passed away on Saturday,January 13,2007 at Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman, Texas.Jim was born on January 19,1946 in Denison,Texas,the son of John Bryant Mayo and Eva Lavern Arnold. Jim started working for the Asheville,North Carolina Police Department after graduating from High School during the civil rights movement.He then started working as a Sherman Police Department Officer in 1970.Jim was promoted to Seargent in 1979 and then to Lieutenant in 1990. During his service to the Police Department, he received many certificates including the Advanced Latent Fingerprint Techniques,Child Abuse,Advanced Hostage Negotiations, Violent Crime/Bloodstain Interpretation and his Advanced Peace Officer Certification. Jim loved his work and many looked up to him. He was a member of the Travis Masonic Lodge and was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason. Jim loved to go fishing every chance he got.He is survived by the mother of his children,LaDean Mayo of Howe,Texas, his son,John Brunson Mayo ,wife Belynda and step grandson,Colten Raisor of Howe,Texas;daughter Jennifer LaDean "Mayo" Lewis, husband,Jimmy and a precious grandaughter,Addison Nicole of Little Elm,Texas;brother,John Mayo and wife,Susan of Red water,Texas;sisters, Lavern McCloud of Denison Texas,Beverly "Mayo" Allen and husband,Norman of Tulsa,Oklahoma and Virginia Mayo of Tulsa,Oklahoma. He is also survived by a stepbrother,David Jackson and wife,Sherry of Phoenix,Arizona,a step-sister,Flora "Jackson" Sandbak and husband Henry of Tulsa Oklahoma,and step-mother Iama "Louise" Mayo of Tulsa Oklahoma.Other survivors include numerous nieces and nephews,cousins and a host of other family members and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother;and his stepfather. Family night was on Tuesday,January 16,2007 from 6 to 8 p.m.at Waldo Funeral Home. Jim is greatly loved and missed. May he rest peacefully in the loving arms of our Heavenly Father,until we meet again...




FISHERMAN'S PRAYER
I pray that I may live to fish
until my dying day,

And when it comes,my last cast,
I'll then most humbly pray.

When in the Lords great landing net,
and peacefully asleep,

That in his mercy I be judged
big enough to keep.
AMEN...