Barbara Jean Hayes, 77, of Keystone died Friday, December 1, at University Medical Center in Fresno, California. Barbara and her husband Bob had traveled to California to spend the holidays with their four children and their families.
Barbara was born to Harold McKinley and Ella Gail (McLean) Bates on November 17, 1929, in Pocatello, Idaho. She attended grade school and high school in Pocatello. Her high school studies concentrated on secretarial work and she graduated from Pocatello High School in 1947. She was an active member of the Job's Daughters, Order of Eastern Star and a lifetime member. She also enjoyed singing with the Sweet Adelines.
After graduation she worked for a short time for a credit bureau. She later worked for 10 years as a stenographer in the Chief Dispatcher's office of the Union Pacific Railroad in Pocatello. She met Robert E. "Bob" Hayes, a mining engineer, who was working in Pocatello at the time. Bob took a position with the Ingersoll Rand Company and moved to New York City. Barbara traveled to the east coast by train and they were married in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on November 2, 1957. Two children were born in New Jersey, Karen Jean and John Robert.
After four years Bob was transferred to Grand Junction, Colorado. A third child was born in Grand Junction, David Neil. The family moved to Leadville, Colorado, when Bob took a position with the Climax Molybdenum Company. Nancy Gail was born in Leadville, more than 10,000 feet above sea level.
Bob's work took the Hayes family to Jeffrey City, Wyoming, on to Uravan, Colorado, with Union Carbide and ultimately to Bishop, California.
Barbara took great pride in being a homemaker and mother for all of these years. She became very active in the school, social and sporting activities of her four children. She was a room mother and became president of the PTA. If children needed to get somewhere, you could always count on Barbara to drive a carload and serve as chaperone. She spent many hours behind the counters of bake sales and snack stands as well as organizing fund raisers and school carnivals. In 1976 she was honored by the Round Valley School PTA as Mother of the Year.
As her children became high school and college age she felt the desire to enter the business world once more. She worked for the Inyo Mono National Bank as a teller which was later purchased by the Security Pacific National Bank. She was teased as being the "manager" of the Big Pine branch of the bank. Three days a week she would travel the 14 miles south to Big Pine by herself where she was greeted by her customers who were waiting with their transactions.
Barbara's health problems started when she had the first of four meningioma tumors removed from her left temple. After the first two surgeries she was able to return to her bank work after some rehabilitation. After the third surgery she left work on long term disability. She was able to continue her work as a mother and homemaker for many years.
After living in Bishop for 22 years, in 1993 Bob and Barbara retired to Keystone, South Dakota, the town where Bob was born and raised. Barbara remained active in church functions, the Keystone and Hill City Senior Citizens Center as well as the Keystone Historical Society and served as a docent at the Keystone Historical Museum. She was active in the West River History Conference and enjoyed greeting all of the visitors to the Black Hills at Keystone's Biker Breakfast during the Sturgis Rally each year.
Barbara was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Neil Bates; and a nephew, William Bates. She is survived by her husband, Bob Hayes; two sons, John Hayes and wife Margo, David Hayes; and two daughters, Karen Hayes and Nancy Burrus and husband Bob; six grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to the Project Life Saver program. This program is a volunteer program that provides and services radio transmitters which are strapped to dementia and Alzheimer patients so they may easily be detected if they become lost.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, December 7, at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City.
Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, December 8, at the United Church of Christ (UCC) in Keystone with Reverend Richard "Mitch" Behringer officiating. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Keystone.
- Rapid City Journal, December 05, 2006
Barbara was born to Harold McKinley and Ella Gail (McLean) Bates on November 17, 1929, in Pocatello, Idaho. She attended grade school and high school in Pocatello. Her high school studies concentrated on secretarial work and she graduated from Pocatello High School in 1947. She was an active member of the Job's Daughters, Order of Eastern Star and a lifetime member. She also enjoyed singing with the Sweet Adelines.
After graduation she worked for a short time for a credit bureau. She later worked for 10 years as a stenographer in the Chief Dispatcher's office of the Union Pacific Railroad in Pocatello. She met Robert E. "Bob" Hayes, a mining engineer, who was working in Pocatello at the time. Bob took a position with the Ingersoll Rand Company and moved to New York City. Barbara traveled to the east coast by train and they were married in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on November 2, 1957. Two children were born in New Jersey, Karen Jean and John Robert.
After four years Bob was transferred to Grand Junction, Colorado. A third child was born in Grand Junction, David Neil. The family moved to Leadville, Colorado, when Bob took a position with the Climax Molybdenum Company. Nancy Gail was born in Leadville, more than 10,000 feet above sea level.
Bob's work took the Hayes family to Jeffrey City, Wyoming, on to Uravan, Colorado, with Union Carbide and ultimately to Bishop, California.
Barbara took great pride in being a homemaker and mother for all of these years. She became very active in the school, social and sporting activities of her four children. She was a room mother and became president of the PTA. If children needed to get somewhere, you could always count on Barbara to drive a carload and serve as chaperone. She spent many hours behind the counters of bake sales and snack stands as well as organizing fund raisers and school carnivals. In 1976 she was honored by the Round Valley School PTA as Mother of the Year.
As her children became high school and college age she felt the desire to enter the business world once more. She worked for the Inyo Mono National Bank as a teller which was later purchased by the Security Pacific National Bank. She was teased as being the "manager" of the Big Pine branch of the bank. Three days a week she would travel the 14 miles south to Big Pine by herself where she was greeted by her customers who were waiting with their transactions.
Barbara's health problems started when she had the first of four meningioma tumors removed from her left temple. After the first two surgeries she was able to return to her bank work after some rehabilitation. After the third surgery she left work on long term disability. She was able to continue her work as a mother and homemaker for many years.
After living in Bishop for 22 years, in 1993 Bob and Barbara retired to Keystone, South Dakota, the town where Bob was born and raised. Barbara remained active in church functions, the Keystone and Hill City Senior Citizens Center as well as the Keystone Historical Society and served as a docent at the Keystone Historical Museum. She was active in the West River History Conference and enjoyed greeting all of the visitors to the Black Hills at Keystone's Biker Breakfast during the Sturgis Rally each year.
Barbara was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Neil Bates; and a nephew, William Bates. She is survived by her husband, Bob Hayes; two sons, John Hayes and wife Margo, David Hayes; and two daughters, Karen Hayes and Nancy Burrus and husband Bob; six grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to the Project Life Saver program. This program is a volunteer program that provides and services radio transmitters which are strapped to dementia and Alzheimer patients so they may easily be detected if they become lost.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, December 7, at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City.
Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, December 8, at the United Church of Christ (UCC) in Keystone with Reverend Richard "Mitch" Behringer officiating. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Keystone.
- Rapid City Journal, December 05, 2006
Barbara Jean Hayes, 77, of Keystone died Friday, December 1, at University Medical Center in Fresno, California. Barbara and her husband Bob had traveled to California to spend the holidays with their four children and their families.
Barbara was born to Harold McKinley and Ella Gail (McLean) Bates on November 17, 1929, in Pocatello, Idaho. She attended grade school and high school in Pocatello. Her high school studies concentrated on secretarial work and she graduated from Pocatello High School in 1947. She was an active member of the Job's Daughters, Order of Eastern Star and a lifetime member. She also enjoyed singing with the Sweet Adelines.
After graduation she worked for a short time for a credit bureau. She later worked for 10 years as a stenographer in the Chief Dispatcher's office of the Union Pacific Railroad in Pocatello. She met Robert E. "Bob" Hayes, a mining engineer, who was working in Pocatello at the time. Bob took a position with the Ingersoll Rand Company and moved to New York City. Barbara traveled to the east coast by train and they were married in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on November 2, 1957. Two children were born in New Jersey, Karen Jean and John Robert.
After four years Bob was transferred to Grand Junction, Colorado. A third child was born in Grand Junction, David Neil. The family moved to Leadville, Colorado, when Bob took a position with the Climax Molybdenum Company. Nancy Gail was born in Leadville, more than 10,000 feet above sea level.
Bob's work took the Hayes family to Jeffrey City, Wyoming, on to Uravan, Colorado, with Union Carbide and ultimately to Bishop, California.
Barbara took great pride in being a homemaker and mother for all of these years. She became very active in the school, social and sporting activities of her four children. She was a room mother and became president of the PTA. If children needed to get somewhere, you could always count on Barbara to drive a carload and serve as chaperone. She spent many hours behind the counters of bake sales and snack stands as well as organizing fund raisers and school carnivals. In 1976 she was honored by the Round Valley School PTA as Mother of the Year.
As her children became high school and college age she felt the desire to enter the business world once more. She worked for the Inyo Mono National Bank as a teller which was later purchased by the Security Pacific National Bank. She was teased as being the "manager" of the Big Pine branch of the bank. Three days a week she would travel the 14 miles south to Big Pine by herself where she was greeted by her customers who were waiting with their transactions.
Barbara's health problems started when she had the first of four meningioma tumors removed from her left temple. After the first two surgeries she was able to return to her bank work after some rehabilitation. After the third surgery she left work on long term disability. She was able to continue her work as a mother and homemaker for many years.
After living in Bishop for 22 years, in 1993 Bob and Barbara retired to Keystone, South Dakota, the town where Bob was born and raised. Barbara remained active in church functions, the Keystone and Hill City Senior Citizens Center as well as the Keystone Historical Society and served as a docent at the Keystone Historical Museum. She was active in the West River History Conference and enjoyed greeting all of the visitors to the Black Hills at Keystone's Biker Breakfast during the Sturgis Rally each year.
Barbara was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Neil Bates; and a nephew, William Bates. She is survived by her husband, Bob Hayes; two sons, John Hayes and wife Margo, David Hayes; and two daughters, Karen Hayes and Nancy Burrus and husband Bob; six grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to the Project Life Saver program. This program is a volunteer program that provides and services radio transmitters which are strapped to dementia and Alzheimer patients so they may easily be detected if they become lost.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, December 7, at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City.
Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, December 8, at the United Church of Christ (UCC) in Keystone with Reverend Richard "Mitch" Behringer officiating. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Keystone.
- Rapid City Journal, December 05, 2006
Barbara was born to Harold McKinley and Ella Gail (McLean) Bates on November 17, 1929, in Pocatello, Idaho. She attended grade school and high school in Pocatello. Her high school studies concentrated on secretarial work and she graduated from Pocatello High School in 1947. She was an active member of the Job's Daughters, Order of Eastern Star and a lifetime member. She also enjoyed singing with the Sweet Adelines.
After graduation she worked for a short time for a credit bureau. She later worked for 10 years as a stenographer in the Chief Dispatcher's office of the Union Pacific Railroad in Pocatello. She met Robert E. "Bob" Hayes, a mining engineer, who was working in Pocatello at the time. Bob took a position with the Ingersoll Rand Company and moved to New York City. Barbara traveled to the east coast by train and they were married in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on November 2, 1957. Two children were born in New Jersey, Karen Jean and John Robert.
After four years Bob was transferred to Grand Junction, Colorado. A third child was born in Grand Junction, David Neil. The family moved to Leadville, Colorado, when Bob took a position with the Climax Molybdenum Company. Nancy Gail was born in Leadville, more than 10,000 feet above sea level.
Bob's work took the Hayes family to Jeffrey City, Wyoming, on to Uravan, Colorado, with Union Carbide and ultimately to Bishop, California.
Barbara took great pride in being a homemaker and mother for all of these years. She became very active in the school, social and sporting activities of her four children. She was a room mother and became president of the PTA. If children needed to get somewhere, you could always count on Barbara to drive a carload and serve as chaperone. She spent many hours behind the counters of bake sales and snack stands as well as organizing fund raisers and school carnivals. In 1976 she was honored by the Round Valley School PTA as Mother of the Year.
As her children became high school and college age she felt the desire to enter the business world once more. She worked for the Inyo Mono National Bank as a teller which was later purchased by the Security Pacific National Bank. She was teased as being the "manager" of the Big Pine branch of the bank. Three days a week she would travel the 14 miles south to Big Pine by herself where she was greeted by her customers who were waiting with their transactions.
Barbara's health problems started when she had the first of four meningioma tumors removed from her left temple. After the first two surgeries she was able to return to her bank work after some rehabilitation. After the third surgery she left work on long term disability. She was able to continue her work as a mother and homemaker for many years.
After living in Bishop for 22 years, in 1993 Bob and Barbara retired to Keystone, South Dakota, the town where Bob was born and raised. Barbara remained active in church functions, the Keystone and Hill City Senior Citizens Center as well as the Keystone Historical Society and served as a docent at the Keystone Historical Museum. She was active in the West River History Conference and enjoyed greeting all of the visitors to the Black Hills at Keystone's Biker Breakfast during the Sturgis Rally each year.
Barbara was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Neil Bates; and a nephew, William Bates. She is survived by her husband, Bob Hayes; two sons, John Hayes and wife Margo, David Hayes; and two daughters, Karen Hayes and Nancy Burrus and husband Bob; six grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to the Project Life Saver program. This program is a volunteer program that provides and services radio transmitters which are strapped to dementia and Alzheimer patients so they may easily be detected if they become lost.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, December 7, at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City.
Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, December 8, at the United Church of Christ (UCC) in Keystone with Reverend Richard "Mitch" Behringer officiating. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Keystone.
- Rapid City Journal, December 05, 2006
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