Susan Mayes

SUSAN ELIZABETH MAYES

Cedar Rapids

(1942 – 2017)

Susan, of Prospect, Ky.,

was born in Centralia, Ill.,

on April 21, 1942, the only

child of Adelbert L. Spiller,

M.D., and Ann Elizabeth

(Scharp) Spiller. She passed

away peacefully on

May 4, 2017, at the age of 75

after a hard-fought

courageous battle with

Parkinson's disease, with her loving husband at her side.

She is survived by her

husband of 53 years, Richard

(Rick); her son, Robert (Bob), and daughter-in-law, Paula, of San Francisco; and in

Seattle, her daughter, Elizabeth (Beth), son-in-law, Christopher (Chris), and granddaughter, Willow.

Susan's life was devoted to her family, the Episcopal Church, volunteering, reading, traveling and spending quality time with family and friends.

Susan, always a top student, graduated first in her

class in 1960 from Centralia Township High School,

where she made lifelong friends. She then was a

member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and the Class of 1964 at Northwestern University, graduating in December

1963, a day before marrying her lifelong partner, Rick.

While raising a handsome, precocious son, and

joyous, beautiful daughter, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where they lived from 1973 until 1992, Susan served the public schools, leading elementary school curriculum

enrichment programs. There she was very active in the American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters and St. Michael's Episcopal Church.

Since moving to the Louisville area in 1992, Susan

had been most active in St. Matthew's Episcopal

Church. She was a graduate of its Education for Ministry, a chalice bearer, a member of Daughters of the King and the bell choir, and served for many years on the

Women's Board of the Episcopal Church Home. She was a member and past president of AAUW, a member of the Woman's Club of Louisville, PEO and several book

groups. She was employed part-time many years

overseeing the cookbook section and coordinating

author events at Hawley Cooke and its successor

bookstore.

Memorial services in Louisville and San Francisco

will be announced at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be

made to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation (http://pdf.org), to St. Matthew's Episcopal Church of Louisville

(http://www.stmatthewsepiscopallouisville.org), or

Trinity+St. Peter's Episcopal Church of San Francisco

(http://www.trinity-stpeters.org), where she worshipped while being treated for her illness by the renowned

UCSF medical staff in her final months.