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Lewis Victor Mays Jr

Lewis Victor Mays, Jr. (1927 - 2015) was active/lived in Connecticut, Maine.  Lewis Mays Jr is known for Marine, illustration, sculpture.

Obituary. Bangor Daily News, April 26, 2015

BELFAST – Artist and author, Lewis Victor Mays Jr., 87, died peacefully in his home in Belfast, ME, with his children at his side, on Friday, April 17, 2015.

The son of Lewis Victor Mays and Sara Fadely, he was born in New York City, in 1927, and raised in Bronxville, NY.  Enlisting in the Navy during the final months of World War II, he began his ROTC at Ohio State in 1945, transferring to Yale University in 1946, where he majored in art and was awarded his B.A. in 1949.  He served as a Naval Intelligence Officer and was stationed in Panama from 1952 to 1953.  He continued to serve in the Naval Reserve until 1978, commanding his Intelligence unit and retiring as a Captain.

In 1950 he met his beloved Lynnabeth Olwin (b.1930), the start of an enduring and loving union, continuing until her death in 2008.  They married in 1954 and made their home in Clinton, CT, for nearly 50 years.  The aut   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1728 characters.]  Artist bio

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