Ness County KS Archives Obituaries.....HAYS, Agnes February 12, 1982
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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. 

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Source:  Wichita Eagle-Beacon, Wichita, Kansas, Monday, February 15, 1982.  




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