Family will be receiving friends Friday, October 4, 2019, from 1 until 2 p.m., at Kilgore-Green Funeral Home. Service will follow at 2 p.m., in the Kilgore-Green Chapel, burial at Oak Hill Cemetery.
He served in the Army in Korea from 1955 – 1957. He was a Spec. 3. His occupation was a truck driver for Gordon’s Transport in Birmingham, AL.
He was preceded in death by children, Billy Vaughn Hayes and Stephen Craig Hayes; parents, Jack and Lima Hayes; siblings, Lorene Jenkens, Jean Hayes and Ray Hayes; grandparents, Thomas Hayes, Betty Stewart Hayes, John Riley Bray and Nancy Bray.
He is survived by his wife, Betty L. Hayes; children, Russell J. Hayes, Rhonda Ann Hayes Owens; grandchildren, Kejum James Hayes, Randy Keith Mortimer; sister, Gwendolyn Guinn (Wilkie) and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.