Leroy Mays, age 90, of Hurricane Mills, TN passed away on November 14, 2025.
Leroy entered this life on September 16, 1935 in Raton, NM, born to the late Ray R Mays and Hattie McCracker. He sometimes would talk about adventures with his father, Ray, who was a well driller in northern California and then a welder working in the Navy shipyard in Mare Island, California.
Leroy worked for many years as a print setter, until the company went out of business: and he then started up and ran a janitorial service company. He lived and worked in the bay area (Concord) of central California, until the early 2000’s where he relocated to Northern California, to the town of Lucerne, which was located on Clear lake. His pride and joy was a 1966 Porsche, 912, that they purchased new in 1966 and kept until 2017, when it was totaled in head on collision with a motorist who was traveling in the wrong direction on the interstate.
He is predeceased by his wife Margie, who passed away in January of 2001, his sister Naomie June Long, who passed in 2016 and his three older brothers. In 2021, he relocated to live with his daughter and son inlaw, Virgil and Marie Perry, in Hurricane Mills, TN. He enjoyed living in Tennessee, dining out and worshiping at the Waverly First Baptist church.