Edmund Hays
October 1, 1913 — February 5, 2008
Edmund Hays
Edmund Davis Hays, 94, died February 5, 2008 at Chenal Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock. He was preceded in death by Vivian, his wife of 70 years, and a brother, Carl Hays. Ed is survived by a son, Don K. Hays of Little Rock; a daughter, Eddie S. Hays Ryan of Indianapolis, Indiana; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Ed was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1913 and raised in Missler, Meade, and Emporia, Kansas. He experienced the Great Depression and wrote of his travels during this period. He met and married Vivian Tucker and they moved to Arkansas in 1939. It was here in 1941 that he planted 18,000 seedling pine trees around the border of his farm in Roseville. Years later, this living fence was designated as a road side park and thus, protected.
Ed was a Navy veteran of WWII, serving on the Destroyer Escort USS Lovering for the duration of the war. Following the war, he moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas where he retired in 1975 from the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company after 29 years of service.
Interment will be at the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock. There will be no formal services. The family wishes to thank the staff of Chenal Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center for their years of loving care.
Arrangements by Little Rock Funeral Home, 8801 Knoedl Ct. (NW corner I-630 and Barrow Rd.), Little Rock, (501)224-2200.
Ed was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1913 and raised in Missler, Meade, and Emporia, Kansas. He experienced the Great Depression and wrote of his travels during this period. He met and married Vivian Tucker and they moved to Arkansas in 1939. It was here in 1941 that he planted 18,000 seedling pine trees around the border of his farm in Roseville. Years later, this living fence was designated as a road side park and thus, protected.
Ed was a Navy veteran of WWII, serving on the Destroyer Escort USS Lovering for the duration of the war. Following the war, he moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas where he retired in 1975 from the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company after 29 years of service.
Interment will be at the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock. There will be no formal services. The family wishes to thank the staff of Chenal Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center for their years of loving care.
Arrangements by Little Rock Funeral Home, 8801 Knoedl Ct. (NW corner I-630 and Barrow Rd.), Little Rock, (501)224-2200.
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