Arline "Sugar" Mayfield passed away March 4, 2019, peacefully, at the Momunth Medical Center, Lakewood, NJ after a long and courageous battle with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Born in Brooklyn NY on June 5, 1936 to Helen McConville & Robert Dampf; she is survived by her husband Patrick "Butch" Mayfield and her children Patty and her husband, Mark Gallagher of Marlborough, MA, Robert and his wife, Anita of Middletown, NY with grand-sons Ryan and Zachary, and Helen and her husband, James Enslin of Budd Lake, NJ with grand-daughters, Nicole and Elise. Additionally she is survived by numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and in-laws from New York, New Jersey and Florida.
Growing up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York she met Patrick in a candy store at the age of fifteen when stick-ball in the streets, listening to music and sock hops were all the rage. Three years later “Sugar” and “Butch” (to those that know them best) were married on August 28, 1955. Moving to Lake Hopatcong in 1962, Arline took on the homemaker role where they raised their three children. Although the move from the city to a small lake community was an adjustment, she was never alone with four sisters-in-law living nearby. Sun up to sun down she spent her days at the lake or pool along with any number of her 14 nieces and nephews; packing boxed lunches, building sand castles, and applying the sunscreen.
Active in the Girls and Boy scouts Arline was always involved with her children’s activities volunteering as class mother, a chaperone on a field trip and participating in class-room events. Many have fond memories of her volunteering at the snack shack for football and baseball games, becoming enormously popular in the community. In 1976 she joined the food service department for the Hopatcong Public Schools System where she would spend 25 years – and where the kids and staff at the school adored her. Vacations and breaks afforded time for travel crisscrossing the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, the Caribbean and cruises to Spain, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and more.
Arline moved to Toms River, NJ in 1989 to a new home with a large pool to welcome four grandchildren, finding herself once again immersed in pool toys, sunscreen and swimmies. The pool aside, Lavalette beach days were special to her, spending many days with her family and close friends.
Arline’s last move in 1999 was to the Fairways, Lakewood, NJ where she formed many new friendships. She enjoyed a retirement lifestyle playing many games of Mahjong and Canasta. She attended many Amici Club parties and New Year’s Eve celebrations. While retired Arline took up knitting and knitted scarves in every color imaginable. She was a member of the Fairways Woman’s Club and always looked forward to her monthly lunches with her special group of ladies.
In the end it was the quiet times that were most rewarding; lunch by the ocean in Long Branch, ice cream at the Sundae Shop in Ocean Grove, or the boardwalk at Point Pleasant on a simple bench overlooking the beach with her love of 68 years listening to the waves of the ocean.
A memorial visitation will be held from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, March 15, 2019 at the D'Elia Funeral Home, 1300 Vermont Avenue, Lakewood. A memorial mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at St. Mary of the Lake R.C. Church, 43 Madison Avenue, Lakewood.
In lieu of flowers please make donations in Arline's memory to the St. Jude Children's Hospital.
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