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Show Impressive Funeral Rites Honor Mrs. Hayes Sunday Impressive funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Timp-anogos Timp-anogos stake tabernacle for Mrs. Eleanor Jane Hayes, 82. Bishop Wilbur Wil-bur Sowards of the Manavu ward, Provo stake, conducted the services. Mrs. Hayes died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hy-rum Hy-rum Johnson. She had been ill for a year, since being injured in a fall. The services were opened with a duet, "In the Garden of Roses", sung by Mr. and Mrs. George Wiseman, followed by the invocation by President Presi-dent W. W. Warnick. Dearwyn Sundwall then played a violin solo, accompanied by her mother. The speakers, Joseph H. Adams of Pleasant Grove and Dr. Guy C. Wilson Wil-son of the B. Y. U., spoke highly of Mrs. Hayes, pointing out her fine character and career of service. A solo, "Going Home," by Elmo Coff-man Coff-man followed. Mrs. Fred Warnick and Mrs. Benjamin Ben-jamin Bullock, associates of Mrs. Hayes in the Relief society work at Provo, were the next speakers. Mrs. Bullock read a poem, written by Mrs. Florence Billings, containing sentiments senti-ments composed by members of the Relief society in Mrs. Hayes' district. ' Bishop Harold M. Wright of the Third ward and Bishop Sowards were the final speakers. Mrs. Hayes' favorite song, "Rock of Ages", was sung as a closing number by Mr. and Mrs. Wiseman. Claude E. Hayes of Salt Lake City, a nephew, pronounced pronounc-ed the benediction, and Taylor Brockbank of Salt Lake City dedicated dedi-cated the grave. Mrs. Hayes was a daughter of the late John J. and Rachel Eleanor Wagstaff Hayes. She was born in Lehi, on July 14, 1856. When she was nine years of age she moved with her parents to San Pete county. Shortly afterward they moved to Pleasant Grove. Her mother being in poor health, the young girl assumed many of the household duties in caring for the family. At the age of nine she learned to knit, and she fashioned stockings, mittens and other clothing cloth-ing for the large family. After the death of her mother, she cared for the children, at that time herself being married. She was married to John Phipps Hayes in the Salt Lake Endowment house, on April 24, 1879. After the death of her husband in 1916 she moved to Provo to care for the motherless children of John E. Hayes. She had lived with her daughter in Pleasant Grove several months before her death. Mrs. Hayes was active in L. D. S. church work all her life. She was an officer in the Young Folks' Retrenchment Re-trenchment society (later, the M. I. A.) , and afterward an active member of the Relief society. She was a visiting teacher for many years. She spent a great deal of time visiting the home-bound and the sick, and was loved by them because of her visits'. Surviving are five sons and daughters, daugh-ters, John E. Hayes of Provo; George H. Hayes, ward clerk of Rigby, Idaho; Ida-ho; Mrs. Rachel Moore of Spanish Fork; Mrs. LuRena Johnson of Pleasant Grove, and Dr. Murray O. Hayes, attorney in the navy department, depart-ment, Washington, D. C; a brother, George S. Hayes of Helena, California, Califor-nia, 23 grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren. |
