Services on Tuesday for Mrs. Drewzella Hays
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Drewzella Hays at the Londeen Funeral Chapel on tuesday, April 20, at 2 o'clock. Rev. E. N. Judd was in charge of the services. The music was provided by Miss Lo Ellen Taylor and Mrs. Gaylord Buhrer.
The following grandsons of the deceased were body-bearers: Dale Hoskins, Howard Frank, Kenneth Hoskins, Guildford Frank, James Frazier and Vernon Hays.
Drewzella Hays was born near the now extinct town of Greencastle, Iowa on Sept. 5, 1872 and departed this life at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Perry Frazier on Easter Sunday, April 18, at the age of 81 years.
When a small child she came to Kansas with her parents and grew to womanhood in Smith county. She became a member of the Methodist church at Gaylord, Kansas and was active as a Sundy [sic] School teacher.
In 1889, she was married to Wm. McCall. To this union two daughters, Bernice, who died in infancy, and Mae were born. This marriage was dissolved.
On Nov. 24, 1895 she was united in marriage to James P. Hays. To this union two daughter Harriet and Luella were born. Her husband passed away on October 15, 1945.
In 1911 the family came to Chapman, then she transferred her membershop to the First Methodist church and was active in the work of the organization known then as the Ladies Aid and Missionary Society, as long as her health permitted.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mae Frank, Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Perry Frazier of Chapman and Mrs. Frank Hoskins of Linneus, Mo., also on sister, Mrs. C. F. Clark of Des Moines, Iowa and two brothers, Lawrence Longcor of Maxwell, Iowa and Robert Longcor of Ogden, Utah. Besides these relatives she leaves 16 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild and a number of step-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
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We wish to thank our friends and relatives for their kindness to us during the illness and death of our Mother and Grandmother; for the flowers, food, expressions of sympaty and the "In Remembrance Gifts of Money" to the Woman's Society of Christan Services for Missions.
The Family of Mrs. Drewzella Hays.
The Chapman Advertiser, April 22, 1954, page 1