ADVANCE -- Funeral service for Edna M. Hay was held Monday at Immanuel United Methodist Church in Jordan, Minn. The Rev. Mark Werner officiated, with burial in Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minn.
Ballard Funeral Home in Jordan was in charge of arrangements.
Hay, 79, died Thursday, Jan. 30, 1997, at St. Francis Hospital in Shakopee, Minn.
She was born Dec. 30, 1917, in Advance, daughter of Grover and Mary Miller Baker. She and Ralph M. Hay were married May 12, 1949, at Jackson. He died Feb. 27, 1990.
Hay was a member of Immanuel Church, its Cheer Group, and active in Sunday School. She was also a member of Jordan Senior Citizens.
Survivors include a daughter, Betty Carlson of Jordan; two sons, Steven Hay of Kamiah, Idaho, Bill Hay of Jackson; three brothers, Lester Baker of Forsyth, Grover Baker Jr. of Cape Girardeau, Jerry Baker of Jackson; a sister, Carolyn Welker of Jackson; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by a brother and two sisters.
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