Myrtle Ione Hayes

Myrtle Ione Hayes, age 91, of Grants Pass, died Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at her home.

A viewing will be from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Friday September 2, 2011 at Hull & Hull Funeral Directors.

A memorial service will be at 11:00 a.m., Friday September 2, 2011 at Pursuit Church of the Nazarene, 922 West Harbeck Road. Private interment will be at Hawthorne Memorial Gardens. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Myrtle was born July 17, 1920 in Seattle, Washington to Francis & Maud Hayes.
She graduated from Vale High School in Vale, Oregon in 1937. She took care of family for five years before starting college. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado where she completed her PhD in Business Teaching. From 1948 to 1966 she taught at Grants Pass High School; from 1966 to 1969 she taught for three years at Central Washington State; from 1971 to 1988 she spent her last years of teaching at Central Missouri State University, in Warrensburg, Missouri where she retired as Professor Emeritis of Business Education & Office Administration. After retiring in 1988 she moved back to Grants Pass, Oregon.

Myrtle has had articles published in refereed journals, created programs and teachers’ manuals, and has had poetry and a short story published in addition to authoring her book, ‘Adventures in Persevering, Pioneers of the 20th Century’.

She started and sponsored Future Business Leaders of America and was active in local, district, and state educational organizations. She was an area representative, then state Vice President of Oregon Business Education Association and an advisor for the high school Christian Club (Hi-C). Myrtle was one of the founders of SOFCU and President of a local missionary society with the Nazarene Church.

She was a member of the Nazarene Church.

Her hobbies included oil painting, memorizing and writing poetry, playing piano and organ (for the Murphy Nazarene Church), sewing, cooking, bird watching, and was a world-wide traveler. She especially loved roses and delphiniums.

Survivors include two brothers, Warren Hayes of Barrington, Illinois and Kenneth Hayes of Davenport, Washington; a sister, Zona Newby of Yakima, Washington and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Francis & Maud Hayes; two brothers, Lloyd Hayes and Melvin Hayes and a sister Norma Ferguson.