HAYWARD, Adelia "Dee"

HAYWARD, WOODWARD, WEBSTER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke
Date: 6/4/2013 at 10:18:06

Adelia “Dee” Woodward Hayward died Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at Good Shepard
Health Center, Mason City, Iowa.

A memorial service was held Saturday, April 9, at United Methodist Church, Clear
Lake, with Pastor Rhoda Preston officiating.

Dee was born June 11, 1918 in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Dr. L. R. Woodward
and Lynne Adele (Webster) Woodward. Dee grew up Mason City from 1921 – 1939,
graduating from Mason City High School in 1935. She then went to Grinnell
College, graduating in 1939 with a B.A. degree and a major in biology/zoology.
Dee was married to John Verner Hayward on June 24, 1939 in Mason City. They
lived in Davenport, Iowa until 1955, then moved to Estherville, Iowa and lived
there until 1957, when they moved to Mason City. In 1968 they became full-time
residents of Buzzards Bay on Clear Lake. Pei Tai Ho, the family cottage on
Dodges Point Beach, a.k.a. Buzzards Bay, was a second home for many years, from
1925 to 1990.

Dee was active in conservation programs with the goal of restoring and
maintaining the original tall prairie grasses that formerly blanketed the
Midwestern prairies. She worked with the Girl Scout Camp at Clear Lake, where
there is a primitive grassland area maintained in her memory, and with the
Nature Conservancy. As a consultant for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
she frequently was called upon to identify prairie and woodland flora. In 1962
she became a biology instructor for Mason City Junior College and Waldorf
College in Forest City, Iowa.

Dee was active in the Keynotes, a Clear Lake area women’s choral group that
performed at local events. She was a member of Rotary for many years, and
belonged to the Mason City Garden Club, the Mason City Monday Club, OT Club,
Clear Lake Friends, and others. She was a member of the First Congregational
Church of Mason City and, later, the United Methodist Church at Clear Lake, and
was a member of the United Methodist Women, Altar Guild, and the Chancel Choir.

Dee is survived by three children, Stephen (Monica) Hayward, Puerto Peñasco,
Mexico, Alan (Becky) Hayward, Mason City, and Lynne (Greg) Bombinski, Phoenix,
Az.

Grandchildren include Suzanne Hayward, Seattle, Wash., Elizabeth Thivierge, Soap
Lake, Wash., John and James Bombinski, Phoenix, Az., Alyson (Thomas) Finley, Des
Moines, Iowa and Jesse Van Slyke, Clear Lake; great-grandchildren are Lauren and
Jade Collier, Taylor Bombinski, Colton Bombinski, Isabella Bombinski, Ashlynn
Bombinski, Bobby Thivierg, Phelan and Lochlan Finley.

Dee was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John (Jan. 12, 2001); son,
John Arthur (1965), and her brothers, Dr. Arthur Woodward and Dr. Edward
Woodward.