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Eben H. Hays

HAYS, BROWN, MOORE, GARRETT

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/13/2006 at 20:23:21

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 5, 1968, page 2

EBEN H. HAYS Died Friday

Eben H. Hays, retired Winterset theatre owner, died Friday, May 31, 1968, at his home in Winterset. He was 64 years of age.

Mr. Hays was born near Earlham Feb. 22, 1904, a son of Charles W. and Mary Brown Hays. His early life was spent in that community. He was married at Early Chapel church on Feb. 2, 1928, to Grace J. Moore.

They moved to Memphis, Missouri, in 1936, where they engaged in the theatre business until 1945. They then returned to Winterset and purchased the Iowa theatre, which they operated for many years. His wife died last Nov. 10th.

Nearest surviving relatives are a brother, Charles W. Hays of Des Moines, and a sister, Mrs. Florence Garrett of Earlham.

Funeral services were held Monday from the Wilson Funeral home in Winterset, conducted by the Rev. William E. Bowles, pastor of the First Christian church here. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.


 

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