Submitted by: John C. Monk

 

Mrs. Sarah L. Hay

            Mrs. Sarah L. Hay, age 85, died at 10 o’clock Tuesday night in the residence of her son, George W. Hay, 1022 East Indiana Avenue, following a six-year illness of paralysis.  She was born in Stark County, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1847, and had been a resident of South Bend for 82 years.  In 1866 she was married to John Hay.  She is survived by two sons and one daughter, George W. Hay and Mrs. Cora Johnson of South Bend, and Christian E. Hay, Spokane, Wash.

            The body will lie in the Forest G. Hay funeral home.  The funeral will be held Thursday at 2:30 o’clock with the Rev. J. Clyde Forney pastor of the First Church of the Brethren officiating.  Burial will be in Bowman cemetery.

Published in the South Bend Tribune; June 21, 1933.