Janye Lou Mayfield - Funeral Message

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Obituary

Janye Lou Mayfield, 77, of Amarillo, Texas was called home to be with Jesus on January 30, 2026.

Janye was born in Wichita, Kansas, on September 10, 1948 to Mary Alice (Darnold) and Virgil Glenn Miller. She graduated from El Dorado High School.

Janye married Gary Mayfield on October 5, 1968. She worked for Highland Park School for many years, River Road Schools, and Texas Tech School of Pharmacy.

Janye enjoyed playing bridge, crafting, and going to the mountains. She was an active member of the Red Hat Society for many years. She always had a smile on her face, especially when she was around her grandchildren. Her grandchildren were her world. At Christmas, you could tell how loved her grandchildren were. She loved spoiling everyone with gifts. Janye loved all of her family. It was so important to her to reach out and check on everyone and keep everyone informed of what was going on.

Most days, you would find her at the Bridge House playing bridge with Neil and many other wonderful and very dear friends. She treasured and loved the friendships and fellowship with them.

When she wasn’t playing bridge, she was crafting with her daughter Krissa. They enjoyed making all kinds of cards and papercraft things to swap with other crafters around the US.

Janye loved telling stories of fishing and camping in the mountains. She would tell you that she can outcast most men with a fishing pole- she was good at it. She loved seeing her son Michael’s love of fishing and would always show everyone his fish. He always reeled in the biggest and most fish anytime anyone went fishing with him.

Janye loved her kids and grandkids so much. She always bragged on them to everyone and made sure accomplishments were known. She would sacrifice things and help all the time to make sure kids and grandkids had what they needed first before herself.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband, Gary Mayfield.

She is survived by her children, Michael Mayfield and wife Lindi, Krissa Perryman and husband Bryan; and grandchildren, Eric Creek, Keeley Lopez and husband Joe, Kailyn Brown, Brylee Seymour and husband Braedon, and Kenzi Brown; and great-grandchildren, Sebastynn Seymour, Nova Lopez, Tre Xaysaleumsack, Brixlee Seymour, and Lyla Lopez.

Memorial and Message

Galatians 5:22–23 CSB

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.

Fruit takes time to grow. It is not something that just happens. Fruit is something that comes from time and consistency. An apple tree for example takes about 3-5 years to start to produce apples and an orange tree can take 7-15 years to produce fruit. Fruit comes from time + consistency.

When we look at who Janye was what we see is in part the fruit of a life well lived. We see the fruit of time + consistency. A life that loved Jesus, loved her children, loved her grandchildren, loved bridge, and loved so many other things.

As I say with Krissa, Bryan, Mike, and the kids I listened to stories. I love a good story especially the true ones. A good story about a person can tell you so much. What happened is important to the story. The setting, the details, the environment all of this is important but what is great about a story is that it tells you about the person. It tells you about their character, in the story you see their strength, their fears, their personality, and the fruit that is being produced. The story become a backdrop to tell someone about the person.

There were no shortage of stories about Janye and there was no shortage in the character of Janye. Three things, three pieces stood out to me as I heard stories.

One she loved well. More than anything in the stories I heard this shone through. She loved well. We see this as a practice of hers. Through time and consistency she showed that love so it was undeniable.

One of the things that stood out was her gift giving. She would hear you mention something you wanted and she would remember it. She would hold on to that and then give you the gift you wanted. You might not even remember you wanted it. Sometimes it also seemed like she just knew what you needed. She had the ability to use her love and attention to read the person and give them the best gift. And as Krissa pointed out the best gift was going to come from her. She loved to give.

She showed love through the consistency of showing up too. She was always there for the grandkids events. She would take the time to go and support. She would show up. Showing up means the world to someone. When you are a kid and you are putting yourself out there at some type of event you are worried, scared, nervous, and such. But for her grandkids they knew they could look over and see her. That is love in action.

That is love in action and that type of love takes time and consistency to prove.

Two she was so smart. I do not know much of anything about bridge but from what I understand you need to be pretty smart to play it. You also need to be quiet which leaves Bryan out. She loved bridge and she was good. She was really good. Playing in tournaments with her partner Neil. Wooping people all around Amarillo and beyond. She not only played but taught others to play. That tells me a lot about her. To have a passion is great but it is not always easy to teach others your passion. When it is important to us we can sometimes struggle to teach it because it is our passion and it just makes sense to us. But she did pass on that love of the game. She had patience for others.

Here again we see love. The beautiful thing or one of the beautiful things about the fruit that is produced in our lives is that it’s not an isolation. It’s not that love exist over smart as in wisdom are over that these things overlap.

Her intellect was not limited to a card game either. Working in the offices of Highland Park School, River Road Schools, and Texas Tech School of Pharmacy she helped organize and keep things on track. She understood what needed to be done and was able to keep others on track too.

Her smarts were also street smarts as well so to speak. I learned that this wonderful woman once downloaded lizard mating sounds in order to capture a rogue lizard in her house. I mean who does this? And she was creative. Over the summers when the grandkids were little she would give them a craft idea that often took the summer to complete. This is both smart and creative because as we all know kids are hard to keep busy in the summer.

You have to be pretty smart to do the amount of crafting that she did too. Crafting is about patience, creativity, and intellect and she had these things in spades.

Three, she was in charge, self-sufficient, and unafraid. One thing I learned was that she was in charge. She was the boss and this makes sense. When you are producing this much fruit, when you have shown yourself through time and consistency you get to be in charge. Plus if you can outcast most men with a fishing pole you kind of get to be in charge.

She was self-sufficient too which I think was tied to her being unafraid. She was capable and when she could not do something it did not sit well with her. I heard that one time there was someone living in her Fifth-wheel crawl space. She saw him crawling out one day and did she freak out and run scared? No, no she did not, she instead chased him down with her car. Again I ask who does this? What type of person does this? Jayne, that is the type of person that does this.

There is so much more we could say. We could talk about the Red Hats, we could talk about her love for camping. We could go on about her banana pudding, we could mention her insistency to have on her lipstick and earrings.

Janye was a good woman who loved life, loved her family, was so smart, and was in charge, self-sufficient, and unafraid. Her life was an example of what you can do with Jesus by your side as you practice through time and consistency grow fruit that others get to enjoy.

But now what? I mean Christmases, birthdays, gatherings will occur and the family will have to learn to celebrate those things without her here.

One of the things that I love about God and the Bible is that it does not shy away from the reality of life. It does not talk about far off things, things that are impractical, things that have nothing to do with today and the world we really live in. No it confronts the reality and truth of our lives and directly speaks to it.

John 11:33–35 CSB

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled. “Where have you put him?” he asked. “Lord,” they told him, “come and see.” Jesus wept.

Those two words in John 11:35 tell us so much about God. Jesus does not come to the grave of His friend Lazarus and say, well you know one day it will be better and I am unfazed by all of this. You know Martha, you know Mary if you would just have a little more faith everything would go better for you. He does not hear the people crying and get annoyed with them because He knows it will all work out so why don’t they just keep it together. No, Jesus does not do any of this. Instead He weeps with them. Why does Jesus weep? It is not that Jesus cannot do something about this because He will. I think Jesus weeps because He is seeing the full effects of the broken world and this breaks the heart of God.

God did not want His people to suffer but here we are in a broken and suffering world. God does not dismiss this. Instead He enters into it. He could stay away that would have been easier on Jesus but He cares so much that He enters into the brokenness and weeps with us. God choses to enter into brokenness and all that it means.

Tears are not a sign of unbelief. They are not weakness and God does not treat them like that. We serve a God who not just allows tears but shares in them. He too weeps at death. When we lose someone we are flooded with emotions. We are sometimes nearly undone. How is the world supposed to just go on? How do we go on? We trust in the one who not just weeps but holds our tears.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 CSB

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

God tells us for those in Christ we are not weeping without hope. There is hope in our tears. We can be saddened by their passing. We will have to learn how to have holidays, birthdays, gatherings without their presence. We will have to find ways to do life without them here, but we also trust that there will be a day when Jesus puts all things right. For now Janye is there already enjoying the fullness we desire. We weep while she rejoices. We can also rejoice in our sadness.

So cry your tears. Remanence. But know that while you weep Jayne is crafting with the Master Crafter and playing bridge with those who wait for the time when everything will be made new.

ADD LOVE YOU MORE

Song - Amazing Grace My Chains are Gone

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Dismissal and Instructions

Instructions on dismissal, of course graveside at memory gardens

the family will be gathering at Krissa house, 2903 Spokane starting about 2:00 they would love to see friends and family.