Ness County KS Archives Obituaries.....HAYS, Agnes February 12, 1982 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cic. Stetter TimeTraveler303@aol.com January 27, 2008, 12:54 am Wichita Eagle-Beacon, Monday, February 15, 1982 Agnes Hays, Hutchinson, Temperance Union Leader By MICHAEL GINSBERG Staff Writer HUTCHINSON - Agnes HAYS, former national president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, has died at age 87. HAYS, who also served as Kansas WCTU president, was a lifelong temperance advocate. But her family said she didn't fit the Carrie Nation ax-wielding stereotype of temperance advocates. "I think she was very practical about it," said her brother, Wendell DUBBS of Palo Alto, Calif. "She believed in it strongly, but she wasn't dogmatic about it. "She believed in education and appeal to reason and logic, more than dogma." HAYS was Kansas WCTU president from 1938 to 1944. She served as national president from 1953 to 1959 and later served in Washington as a lobbyist. "I don't remember her being anything like Carrie Nation," said her sister, Minnie MILLBROOK of Topeka. "She was a very good administrator and raiser of funds." HAYS was born in Ransom in 1895. Her mother was a temperance advocate, and DUBBS and MILLBROOK said their sister followed in her mother's footsteps. "She was very serious about it," MILLBROOK said. "The rest of the family wasn't so convinced, but they supported her." DUBBS said no one teased her about her temperance views. "I think everybody realized she believed deeply about it and respected her for it," he said. HAYS wasn't narrow in her interests, DUBBS said. She wrote a history of the national organization but also wrote other historical articles, and she wrote plays and short stories for small publications. "She was very intellectual, very intelligent, great to banter with," DUBBS said. "Everybody loved her." A Fort Hays State University graduate, HAYS taught Latin and English teacher in small-town high schools throughout Kansas. She married Glenn HAYS, a teacher and later a farmer, in 1917. He died in 1959. In addition to her temperance activities, HAYS was a member of several civic and literary associations. "She was just one of those people that takes part," MILLBROOK said. HAYS, who died Friday, is also survived by her sister, Myrtle STOVER of Palo Alto. Services will be at 4 p.m. today at Elliott Mortuary. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Ransom Cemetery. _______________ Source: Wichita Eagle-Beacon, Wichita, Kansas, Monday, February 15, 1982. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/ness/obits/h/hays2092ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb