Mr. Warren Gene Hayden, 83, passed away Monday, July 4, 2005, at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Oakland City. 

He was born in Winslow, Ind., to Paul and Daisie Flint Hayden.

He was a graduate of Oakland City University and had attended Northeast Louisiana State University. He was a Certified Safety Professional and had worked as a safety engineer for many corporations for 35 years, including the U.S. Army, Enos Coal Mine, Thiokol Chemical Corp., Olin Corp. and Kerr-McGee Corp. He was past president of the Utah Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers and a member of the National Fire Protection Association, American Mining Congress Safety Committee and the American Petroleum Institute. He was an U.S. Army veteran of WWII and a member of the Princeton, Ind., VFW Post 1147. He was a member of the Oakland City Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Hadi Shrine. 

He was preceded in death by his wife, Helen, in 1999, and his parents. 

He is survived by his sister and brother-in-law, Paula and Joseph Ireland of Francisco, Ind.; and nieces and nephews, Michael and Kathy Lee, Bradley Lee, Julie and Michael Benton, Jonathan Ireland, and Richard and Charles Merrick. He is also survived by a special friend, Maybell Schmaltz. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Corn-Colvin Funeral Home in Oakland City, with Dr. Douglas Low officiating. Burial will be in the Montgomery Cemetery in Oakland City, where the VFW Post 1147 will have military rites. 

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to service time Thursday at the funeral home. F.&A.M. Lodge 467 will have Masonic services at 7 p.m. this evening.