Wallowa County Chieftain Newspaper, Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon, dated (Thursday) January 7, 1971.
(Photo Caption: Alfred Hays, a pioneer resident of Imnaha, was 92 years old when this picture was taken four years ago as he was reading birthday cards on his 92 birthday. Services were held Tuesday for "Alf", as he was familiarly known by a great host of friends.)
Alfred Marion Hays, a retired stockman and pioneer resident, passed away on New Year's Day, 1971, at Wallowa County nursing home where he had lived for several months. He had been in frail health for the past year.
He was the son of James and Elizabeth Hays and was born Sept. 17, 1874, in Mason County, Missouri. He had lived in Wallowa county for 94 years with most of his adult life on the Imnaha. On Nov. 24, 1921 he was married to Josie I. Morrison on Alder Slope at the home of Rev. Newton Hammack. He belonged to the Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Josie I. of Enterprise; three step-daughters, Mrs. Harold R. (Thelma) Gribbin of Woodburn, Mrs. Vern (Joy) Warnock of Pomeroy, Wash., and Mrs. Ben (Erma) Tippett of Joseph; two brothers, Wm. E. Hays of Alder Slope and Omar Hays of Enterprise; and six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Bollman chapel with Robert L. Hocker, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiating. Organist was Wanda Sorweide and soloist was Maryann Hocker who sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere".
Casket bearers were Jack, J.D., Bill, Ron, Frank and Vernon Hays, all nephews of the deceased, an interment was in the Enterprise cemetery.
Alfred Hays and his brothers, Bill, were partners on a ranch on horse creek, lower Imnaha, for a number of years. When World War I came along they sold out with the expection that they would enter the armed forces, but the war ended without their being called. Hays then bought an acreage near the Imnaha Bridge and for years operated an extensive commercial garden, hauling his produce to the valley with horses and wagon in the beginning. Mrs. Hays, who had been postmistress of the postoffice in the now abandoned town of Zumwalt from 1903-1914, prior to her marriage to Mr. hays, took over the duties of telephone operator at Imnaha and held this post for 27 years, from 1928 until 1955 when they moved to Enterprise.
Vern Warnock, Alfred's son-in-law, recalls that Alfred and his father, Jim Hays, the latter one of the first settlers on the Imnaha, roamed Wallowa county back in the 1880s with saddle horses and a pack outfit, fishing and hunting and named many of the canyons, ridges and streams including such places as Cow creek, Horse creek, Gumboot, Hat Point and the famous P.O. Saddle.
(Obituary contributed by Michelle Drayton-Fisher FAG #46821146)
(Photo Caption: Alfred Hays, a pioneer resident of Imnaha, was 92 years old when this picture was taken four years ago as he was reading birthday cards on his 92 birthday. Services were held Tuesday for "Alf", as he was familiarly known by a great host of friends.)
Alfred Marion Hays, a retired stockman and pioneer resident, passed away on New Year's Day, 1971, at Wallowa County nursing home where he had lived for several months. He had been in frail health for the past year.
He was the son of James and Elizabeth Hays and was born Sept. 17, 1874, in Mason County, Missouri. He had lived in Wallowa county for 94 years with most of his adult life on the Imnaha. On Nov. 24, 1921 he was married to Josie I. Morrison on Alder Slope at the home of Rev. Newton Hammack. He belonged to the Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Josie I. of Enterprise; three step-daughters, Mrs. Harold R. (Thelma) Gribbin of Woodburn, Mrs. Vern (Joy) Warnock of Pomeroy, Wash., and Mrs. Ben (Erma) Tippett of Joseph; two brothers, Wm. E. Hays of Alder Slope and Omar Hays of Enterprise; and six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Bollman chapel with Robert L. Hocker, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiating. Organist was Wanda Sorweide and soloist was Maryann Hocker who sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere".
Casket bearers were Jack, J.D., Bill, Ron, Frank and Vernon Hays, all nephews of the deceased, an interment was in the Enterprise cemetery.
Alfred Hays and his brothers, Bill, were partners on a ranch on horse creek, lower Imnaha, for a number of years. When World War I came along they sold out with the expection that they would enter the armed forces, but the war ended without their being called. Hays then bought an acreage near the Imnaha Bridge and for years operated an extensive commercial garden, hauling his produce to the valley with horses and wagon in the beginning. Mrs. Hays, who had been postmistress of the postoffice in the now abandoned town of Zumwalt from 1903-1914, prior to her marriage to Mr. hays, took over the duties of telephone operator at Imnaha and held this post for 27 years, from 1928 until 1955 when they moved to Enterprise.
Vern Warnock, Alfred's son-in-law, recalls that Alfred and his father, Jim Hays, the latter one of the first settlers on the Imnaha, roamed Wallowa county back in the 1880s with saddle horses and a pack outfit, fishing and hunting and named many of the canyons, ridges and streams including such places as Cow creek, Horse creek, Gumboot, Hat Point and the famous P.O. Saddle.
(Obituary contributed by Michelle Drayton-Fisher FAG #46821146)
Wallowa County Chieftain Newspaper, Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon, dated (Thursday) January 7, 1971.
(Photo Caption: Alfred Hays, a pioneer resident of Imnaha, was 92 years old when this picture was taken four years ago as he was reading birthday cards on his 92 birthday. Services were held Tuesday for "Alf", as he was familiarly known by a great host of friends.)
Alfred Marion Hays, a retired stockman and pioneer resident, passed away on New Year's Day, 1971, at Wallowa County nursing home where he had lived for several months. He had been in frail health for the past year.
He was the son of James and Elizabeth Hays and was born Sept. 17, 1874, in Mason County, Missouri. He had lived in Wallowa county for 94 years with most of his adult life on the Imnaha. On Nov. 24, 1921 he was married to Josie I. Morrison on Alder Slope at the home of Rev. Newton Hammack. He belonged to the Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Josie I. of Enterprise; three step-daughters, Mrs. Harold R. (Thelma) Gribbin of Woodburn, Mrs. Vern (Joy) Warnock of Pomeroy, Wash., and Mrs. Ben (Erma) Tippett of Joseph; two brothers, Wm. E. Hays of Alder Slope and Omar Hays of Enterprise; and six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Bollman chapel with Robert L. Hocker, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiating. Organist was Wanda Sorweide and soloist was Maryann Hocker who sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere".
Casket bearers were Jack, J.D., Bill, Ron, Frank and Vernon Hays, all nephews of the deceased, an interment was in the Enterprise cemetery.
Alfred Hays and his brothers, Bill, were partners on a ranch on horse creek, lower Imnaha, for a number of years. When World War I came along they sold out with the expection that they would enter the armed forces, but the war ended without their being called. Hays then bought an acreage near the Imnaha Bridge and for years operated an extensive commercial garden, hauling his produce to the valley with horses and wagon in the beginning. Mrs. Hays, who had been postmistress of the postoffice in the now abandoned town of Zumwalt from 1903-1914, prior to her marriage to Mr. hays, took over the duties of telephone operator at Imnaha and held this post for 27 years, from 1928 until 1955 when they moved to Enterprise.
Vern Warnock, Alfred's son-in-law, recalls that Alfred and his father, Jim Hays, the latter one of the first settlers on the Imnaha, roamed Wallowa county back in the 1880s with saddle horses and a pack outfit, fishing and hunting and named many of the canyons, ridges and streams including such places as Cow creek, Horse creek, Gumboot, Hat Point and the famous P.O. Saddle.
(Obituary contributed by Michelle Drayton-Fisher FAG #46821146)
(Photo Caption: Alfred Hays, a pioneer resident of Imnaha, was 92 years old when this picture was taken four years ago as he was reading birthday cards on his 92 birthday. Services were held Tuesday for "Alf", as he was familiarly known by a great host of friends.)
Alfred Marion Hays, a retired stockman and pioneer resident, passed away on New Year's Day, 1971, at Wallowa County nursing home where he had lived for several months. He had been in frail health for the past year.
He was the son of James and Elizabeth Hays and was born Sept. 17, 1874, in Mason County, Missouri. He had lived in Wallowa county for 94 years with most of his adult life on the Imnaha. On Nov. 24, 1921 he was married to Josie I. Morrison on Alder Slope at the home of Rev. Newton Hammack. He belonged to the Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Josie I. of Enterprise; three step-daughters, Mrs. Harold R. (Thelma) Gribbin of Woodburn, Mrs. Vern (Joy) Warnock of Pomeroy, Wash., and Mrs. Ben (Erma) Tippett of Joseph; two brothers, Wm. E. Hays of Alder Slope and Omar Hays of Enterprise; and six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Bollman chapel with Robert L. Hocker, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiating. Organist was Wanda Sorweide and soloist was Maryann Hocker who sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere".
Casket bearers were Jack, J.D., Bill, Ron, Frank and Vernon Hays, all nephews of the deceased, an interment was in the Enterprise cemetery.
Alfred Hays and his brothers, Bill, were partners on a ranch on horse creek, lower Imnaha, for a number of years. When World War I came along they sold out with the expection that they would enter the armed forces, but the war ended without their being called. Hays then bought an acreage near the Imnaha Bridge and for years operated an extensive commercial garden, hauling his produce to the valley with horses and wagon in the beginning. Mrs. Hays, who had been postmistress of the postoffice in the now abandoned town of Zumwalt from 1903-1914, prior to her marriage to Mr. hays, took over the duties of telephone operator at Imnaha and held this post for 27 years, from 1928 until 1955 when they moved to Enterprise.
Vern Warnock, Alfred's son-in-law, recalls that Alfred and his father, Jim Hays, the latter one of the first settlers on the Imnaha, roamed Wallowa county back in the 1880s with saddle horses and a pack outfit, fishing and hunting and named many of the canyons, ridges and streams including such places as Cow creek, Horse creek, Gumboot, Hat Point and the famous P.O. Saddle.
(Obituary contributed by Michelle Drayton-Fisher FAG #46821146)
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