Wiley E. Mayne

Wiley E. Mayne, 90, of Sioux City died Sunday, May 27, 2007, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. Matthew Miller officiating. Additional services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church in Sanborn, Iowa. Burial will be in Roseland Cemetery, Sanborn. Visitation with the family present will be 6 to 8 p.m. today at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Condolences may be sent online to www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Mr. Mayne was born Jan. 19, 1917, in Sanborn, Iowa, the son of Earl W. and Gladys (Wiley) Mayne. He was the grandson of William Woolworth, who started farming in O'Brien County in 1878, north of what later became the town of Sanborn, when the railroad was built.

He attended the Sanborn Public Schools as a member of the class of 1934. He won the Iowa state oratory and trumpet solo contests in his senior year. He spent the next four years at Harvard College, where he was a scholarship student, member of the student council, chairman of Kirkland House and class orator of the class of 1938. He graduated from Iowa Law School and received the highest grade for anyone taking the examination for admission to the Iowa Bar in 1941.

He was a lieutenant with the Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946, serving aboard a destroyer escort in the north Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific.

He was a special agent of the FBI from 1941 to 1943 in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco. He had practiced law in Sioux City from 1946 through 1966. He was president of the Iowa State Bar Association from 1963 to 1964 and a member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association from 1966 to 1968.

He was president of the Sioux City Symphony Association for seven years and an active board member from 1946 until his death. He also served several terms as president of the Sioux City Concert Course.

He was elected to Congress in 1966 and served eight years as a congressman from Iowa's Sixth District from 1967 to 1975. He was a member of the Agricultural and Judiciary committees. He returned to Sioux City and resumed the practice of law in 1975.

He was a member, former trustee and elder of the First Presbyterian Church. He was the senior 33rd Degree Mason of the Sioux City Scottish Rite Bodies.

Survivors include a daughter, Martha and her husband, F.K. Smith of Denver, Colo.; a son, Wiley Jr. and his wife, Medora of Denver, Colo.; and his son and law partner, John and his wife, Juliana of Sioux City; seven grandchildren, Dylan Smith, Hughes Smith, Elizabeth Mayne, Medora Mayne, Katherine Mayne, Wiley E. Mayne II and Juliana Marya Mayne; and a great-grandson, Maxwell Mayne Smith.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his wife.