The Indianapolis Recorder has released the arrangements for Hoosier entrepreneurial legend, and Recorder Publisher/CEO, William “Bill” Mays. Viewings will be held on Thursday, Dec. 11, from 3-8 p.m. and again on Friday morning Dec. 12, from 9:30-10:45 a.m. Funeral services will be Friday, Dec. 12 at 11 a.m. All will take place at Eastern Star Church’s west […]
The entrepreneur, known as “Indiana’s most successful Black businessman,” William G. “Bill” Mays, died Thursday evening on his 69th birthday. Mays was the owner and founder of Mays Chemical Company and had many other entrepreneurial ventures over the years including radio stations, a television station, golf courses, commercial and residential properties, and the historic Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper—one of the […]
William G. (Bill) Mays, owner and founder of Mays Chemical Company, died Thursday, December 4, 2014. The Evansville native passed away in Indianapolis on his 69th birthday. Bill Mays, was a true entrepreneur and in the last third of the 20th Century Mays became Indiana’s most successful Black businessman. Mays established Mays Chemical in 1980 […]
