Kenneth Hay 1908-1946

HAY, MORELAND

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 8/9/2021 at 10:25:56

5 December 1946 - The Anamosa Journal

OLIN - Death of Kenneth Hay, 38, was pronounced suicide by County Coroner F. L. Harrington, Monday.

Hay's body was found by his father-in-law, Roy Moreland on the Hay farm south of Olin about 7 a.m. Monday. He had left the house about 6 a.m. When he failed to come to the house for breakfast after being called several times, Mrs. Hay became alarmed and called her father who lives nearby.

The coroner said the farmer had apparently shot himself with a .410 gauge shotgun which was laying near. Hay had bullet wounds in the side and the head. An empty shell was laying on the ground and one was in the barrel of shotgun.

Despondency over ill health was believed to be the motive for the suicide.

Funeral service was held Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church in Olin, Rev. William Strait officiating. Burial was made in the Olin cemetery.

He was born Dec. 24, 1908 in Jones county.

Surviving are his wife, Marguerite; a daughter, Marilyn; a son, Bernard; his mother, Mrs. W. E. Hay, Anamosa, and a brother, Carl Hay, LaPorte City.

12 December 1946 - The Anamosa Journal

OLIN - Funeral service for Kenneth Hay was held at the Methodist church Wednesday, Dec. 4, in charge of Rev. W. T. Boston, assisted by Rev. Badger. Interment was in the Olin cemetery.

Mrs. Nellie Stivers and Mrs. Audrey McCormick sang, accompanied by Mrs. Elna Rohwedder. Casketbearers were Melvin Wigger, Walter Laetare, Neil Carstensen, Louis Guhl, Maynard Gordon and Louis Kofron.

Kenneth, son of William and Etta Hay, was born Dec, 24, 1908, in the Antioch community and died at his home near Olin, Dec. 2, at the age of 37 years.

He attended the Antioch school.

On Aug. 24, 1930, he was united in marriage to Marguerite Moreland. To this union two children were born, Marilyn and Bernard. First two years of his married life was lived on a farm north of Morley and from there the family moved to their present home near Olin.

Kenneth was a member of the Olin Methodist church and was one of the leaders in the repair and remodeling of the church completed last June.

Surviving are his wife and two children: his mother, Mrs. W. E. Hay, Anamosa; one brother, Carl, LaPorte City, one nephew and two nieces. His father died last January. Brother, Glenn, and a sister, Mildred, also preceded him in death.