Mays Family Foundation

The Mays Family Foundation was initially funded in 1994 by Lowry Mays and his wife of 58 years, Peggy Pitman Mays. They have produced an amazing family of four children and sixteen grandchildren. It is a tribute to the Mays that through the journey that is summarized below, they have managed to keep the family close and involved in each other's lives. In fact, three of the children eventually were key leaders in the company the Mays built. Lowry Mays grew up in Dallas and was one of two children of Lester Thomas Mays and Virginia Lowry who married in 1930. Lester Mays was a successful salesman in the steel business but was killed in an automobile accident when Lowry was 12 and his sister JoAnne was 14. His mother Virginia stepped up to provide for her children and began selling real estate in and around Dallas