Lois (Houlette) Hayes (1961)

FRANK, HAHN, HAYES, HOULETTE, MCNELEY

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 7/11/2006 at 12:57:30

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 19, 1961
Page 10

MRS. LOIS HAYES DIES IN FLORIDA

Former Resident Here Had Varied Career As Actress And Teacher

Mrs Lois Houlette Hayes member of a well known pioneer family of Madison County, died at her home in Miami, Fla., on July 7. She was 74 years of age.

Mrs. Hayes was born in Winterset, Oct. 3, 1886, a daughter of Louis S. and Mary McNeley Houlette. After graduation from high school, she went to Pensacola, Florida where she taught school. Later she returned to Iowa to continue her education, graduating from Highland Park college in Des Moines, and Emerson college in Boston.

She served as a professor of speech and drama at Tobin college in Ft. Dodge and Warrensburg State Teachers college in Missouri. After that she was on the Redpath Lyceum bureau and Chatauqua company circuits as an actress, singer, reader and director.

In 1913 she was married to Howard P. Frank. They made their home in Boston until his death two years later.

She was married to J. Worth Hayes in 1916. They made their home in Nebraska and Missouri. Their daughter, Maryruth was born in 1924, and that same year they moved to Miami, Fla.

In Miami, she operated the Hayes School of Expression for 20 years and for 13 years was employed in the classified advertising department of the Miami News, retiring in 1957.

She was active in numerous community activities. She produced 70 speech contests for the W.C.T.U. and for 10 years was a state director for the Florida P.T.A. She served 20 years as Sunday school lpianist at the Boulevard Christian church in Miami, was nursery teacher there for 15 years, and for five years was deaconess on the board of directors. She was a member of the Woman's Relief corps and Daughters of Union Veterans.

She leaves the daughter, Maryruth; four grandsons, a sister, Mrs. Grace Houlette Hahn of Miami; a brother, Calvin Houlette of Bellflower, Calif.; and two stepsons, Wayne and George Hayes of King City, Mo.

Funeral services were held July 10 from the Boulevard Christian church in Miami. Burial was made in Miami Memorial park.