Eddy Co. NM - OBIT: Dovie Hays ************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: patti pennington ************************************************************ The following excerpts were taken from page 8 - The Artesia (NM) Daily Press - December 29, 1999 Obituaries HAYS Services were December 22, at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses for Dovie Hays of Childress, Texas. Hays, 65, died December 21. Burial was at Childress Cemetery. Born February 1, 1934, in Wood County, Texas, to Gertrude and Henry David Willingham, she was married to Billy Hays. Hays was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. Survivors include her husband, Billy Hays of Childress; mother, Gertrude Willingham of Mineola, Texas; daughters Debra Hayes of Childress and Linda McClure and her husband, Frankie, of Artesia; sisters Lorene Blalock, Pearlie Blalock and Marie Hollingsworth, all of Mineola, Dorothy Moore of Amarillo, Texas, and Ruth Womack of Galena, Kansas; and two grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father in 1980 and by two brothers.