Darlene Kay Mayes

Darlene K. Mayes was a 13-year-old girl from Kanauga, Ohio, who died in the Silver Bridge collapse. Her body was recovered on Dec. 17, 1967.

Obituaries Given For Bridge Victims
Point Pleasant Register (Point Pleasant, WV) - Published Monday, Dec. 18, 1967; pg. 3

Darlene Mayes, a 13-year old Gallipolis girl, was recovered from the river Sunday. Her body has been taken to the Mohr-Stevens Funeral Home.

Arrangements are incomplete.

Mayes, Darlene Kay
Point Pleasant Register (Point Pleasant, WV) - Published Monday, Dec. 18, 1967; pg. 3

Darlene Kay Mayes, 13, of 504 Second Ave., Kanauga, O., also a victim of the disaster was recovered from the river Sunday.

A student at Gallia Academy Junior High School, she was born on Jan. 14, 1954 in Gallipolis, O., the daughter of Robert and Luella Jarrell Mayes.

Surviving in addition to her parents are one brother Jerry of Lima, O.; one sister, Connie, at home; and paternal grandmother, Mrs. George Rollins of Kanauga.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of Christ in Christian Union. Burial will be in the Henderson Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Mohr-Stevens Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Tuesday.