HAY, FLORA DOWNIE



Mrs. Flora Downie Hay, 83, Onaga, died Monday, January 25, 1993 at Golden Acres Nursing Home in Onaga.



Born in the Brightside Community northeast of Denison on October 12, 1909 she was the youngest of five daughters of Thomas M. and Margaret McCrory Downie. She attended the Brightside Community School, later attending high school at Denison for one year, then finishing high school at Holton, Kansas where her parents moved in 1925.



During high school she worked for the Holton City Library, the Fair Store, and the local telephone office. Later she worked for the Rafter Farm Mortgage Company and the Fairchild and Fulton Law Firm.



Mrs. Hay was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Onaga where she was a Sunday School teacher, a member of American Baptist Women, and church clerk.



She was married to Albert S. Hay, Jr. November 16, 1929. She and her husband farmed east of Holton, later moving to a farm near Soldier, and in 1943 moved to a farm southwest of Onaga. Mrs. Hay operated a dog kennel business for many years. Her husband died August 17, 1992.



Survivors include a daughter, Helen Sharon Worthington, Fair Oaks, California; two sons, Albert Stanley Hay, Onaga and James Arthur Hay, Pratt; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.



Funeral services are being held at 10:00 a.m. today (Thursday) at the First Baptist church in Onaga. Burial was in the Holton City Cemetery.



Mrs. Hay lay in state at Tessendorf Mortuary in Onaga until 9:00 p.m. Wednesday and for an hour before service time at the church. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Onaga or the American Diabetes Association and left at the funeral home.