Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hays, Katie West 1956
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The Camilla Enterprise 13 Jan 1956 page 2 Camilla Ga.

  Funeral services were held yesterday (Thursday) morning at eleven o'clock at 
the Hopeful Baptist Church for Mrs. Luther H. Hays, Sr., prominent native of 
Mitchell County, who died at 5:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Mitchell 
County Hospital where she was carried about ten days ago following a stroke.  
She had been in failing health the last year or two but was active for her 76 
years.  She had spent the past year or more with her daughter, Mrs. Brady 
Beasley, in Sale City.  The pastor, the Rev. W. H. Rittenhouse, Sr., conducted 
the services and was assisted by the Rev. P. J. Keadle of Camilla and the Rev. 
J. B. Lumpkin of Howard, Ga..  The seven sons of the deceased served as 
pallbearers.  Bramlett Funeral Home of Camilla was in charge of arrangements.  
Mrs. Hays, whose husband preceded her in death some years ago, was the former 
Katie West, daughter of the late William Morgan and Betty Faircloth West.  She 
was born in Mitchell County on October 29, 1879, and spent her entire life 
here.  Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. E. B. Beasley of Sale City, Mrs. 
Horace W. Bates of Albany, Oregon, Mrs. Ernest C. Jones of Camilla, Mrs. E. T. 
Lowery of Atlanta, and Mrs. Bruce Connell of West Palm Beach, Fla., seven sons, 
C. E. Hays and C. A. Hays, both of West Palm Beach, Fla., Lewis Hays of Akron, 
Ohio, Paul Hays of Rt. 1 Baconton, Henry W. Hays of Albany, L. H. Hays, Jr. of 
Camilla and William J. Hays of Tifton; four brothers, Emory West of Macon, Mack 
L. West of Dothan, Ala., Byron West and Henry West, both of Cairo; four 
sisters, Mrs. Mamie Hays of Camilla, Mrs. Lena Ward and Mrs. Mittie Chastain, 
both of Thomasville, Mrs. Maggie Mitchell of Toccoa.

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