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Show Rock Springs Matron's Rites Today ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo, Not. 16 Funeral services for Mrs, May A. Hay, 76, wife of John W. Ray 8r, Wyoming banker, rancher and Republican leader, will be held at the Episcopal church here at t p.m. Wednesday by Rev. Thomas Rodda. Burial will be In the family plot in Mountain View cemetery. Mrs. Ray died Monday after several months of ID health duo to a heart ailment. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Blair, and was born In Salt Lake City Juno XI. 1873. ) Stage Coach Days Her father, with hi brothers, first cams here daring stage coach days as operators of the stags station, sta-tion, and .remained to found the coal and ranching Industries in Sweetwater county. With coming of the railroad In 186 the Blairs founded Blairtown, which was Union Pacific first station, and opened the first coal mine at that point Blairtown Is bow a part of Rock Springs. Nov. 16, 892. she and Mr. Ray, then a Union Pacific trainmaster, were married in Rock Springs. In 1800, Hay resigned from the Union Pacific and the family returned re-turned to Rock Bprings to enter the ranch and sheep business. ' ... Active as Chorea During that period, Mrs. Hay took an active part la church, social so-cial and civic affairs of the city, . and was a lifetime honorary member mem-ber of Archie Hay unit No. 24, American Legion auxiliary, the post and unit having been named after their eon who died in France In World War L Besides her husband, she is survived sur-vived by two sons, John W. Hay Jr. and Leonard Hay, both of Rock Springs; five daughters, Mrs. William Wil-liam A. Radford Jr., Palo Alto. Cel.; Mrs. Carl H. Johnson, Rock 8prings; Mrs. George Hedgewald, Sacramento, Cat; Mrs. George Force, Piedmont, Cat, and Miss Mary Hay, Rock Springs; eight grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. |