Harold Woodrow Mayberger was born on Aug. 28, 1919 in Astoria, Queens, the only child of Grace Annie Kemp and George Joseph Mayberger. He died in his sleep at home in Craig, CO, on May 17, 2005. He was named for the then-President Woodrow Wilson and he grew up in the same house with his parents, grandparents and several aunts, uncles and cousins. He attended a one-room schoolhouse in Queens and later enrolled in 1937 at PS-126. He graduated from William Jennings Bryant High School in 1937 and received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Alabama in 1941. He was the first member of his family to attend high school or college.

A true scholar, he was accepted at both Union Seminary in Manhattan and LI College of Medicine in Brooklyn and he chose to become a doctor. Because of WWII, he attended medical school year round for three years and received his MD in 1944. He joined the US Army and was stationed in Central and South America. After the war, he completed residencies in pathology and obstetrics and gynecology and also graduated from law school. Dr. Mayberger had many extraordinary experiences in his life, including traveling around the world, meeting three US presidents, and being invited by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on one of his Arctic explorations. He practiced obstetrics and gynecology for more than 40 years in Glen Cove and was associate professor of embryology at the Medical College of the State University of NY at Stony Brook.

Dr. Mayberger was very active in the American Cancer Society and was particularly interested in breast cancer research and providing mammograms to underprivileged women. He served on the editorial staff of The Journal of Legal Medicine and served as president of the American Cancer Society's LI Division, LI Cancer Council, NC Academy of Medicine, NC Medical Society and the NC OB/GYN Society. In 1995, Nassau County proclaimed Harold W. Mayberger Day to recognize his exemplary service to the women of Long Island. He was dearly loved by his patients, office and hospital staff and all those with whom he worked. He was a pilot, historian and an avid genealogist who traced his family back to the 1500s. He visited family homesteads in England and Germany and named his home "Top of the Hill," making him the 5th generation to live in a home so named. At the time of his death, he had just completed a college German class and will be remembered for his love of learning and for his wonderful sense of humor.

He married Eva Marie (Eve) Yerkovich on March 10, 1951 in Astoria and together they had three children. They lived in Syosset, Locust Valley and Glen Cove, until Eve passed away in 1992. In 2000 Dr. Mayberger moved to Craig to be close to his daughter and on Sept. 30, 2000 he married his long-time friend Barbura Clintsman. He loved living in Craig, surrounded by friendly and caring people, and often said these last five years were the very best years of his life. He was a recent convert and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints. He was a kind and generous man, a loving husband, father and grandfather, and good example to all.

Hal was preceded in death by his parents and wife Eve. He is survived by his wife Barbura Mayberger of Craig; daughter Mary (Dave) Pressley of Craig; sons, John (Lissa) of Syosset and James (Esmeralda) of Pasadena, CA; grandchildren, Ben, Daniel (Emily), Evan, Jennifer, Lisa, Marianne and Sarah Pressley, Edgar and Lizette Pineda, Katie and Peter Mayberger and Joseph Parrinello; and 27 nieces and nephews. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or the LDS Church Perpetual Education Fund.