1932
Carol
2015
Carol Jones Hay
October 17, 1932 — February 20, 2015
Carol Jones Hay
Clinton, S.C. –
Carol Jones Hay, wife of the Rev. Dr. Lewis S. “Pete” Hay, died on Friday, February 20, 2015. Interment will be private, with a memorial service held at First Presbyterian Church, Clinton, at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 26, 2015. A reception will follow in the church Fellowship Hall.
Born in Bartow, Florida, on October 17, 1932, she was the younger daughter of the late Rev. Dr. W. Ted Jones and Eloise Knight Jones. Mrs. Hay received her B.A. in Music from Agnes Scott College and her Master’s in Education from the University of South Carolina, with credentials in several areas of special education. She taught kindergarten for underserved children in Princeton, NJ, and later was a special education teacher at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, Sanders Elementary School in Laurens, and Thornwell School in Clinton, where she established the resource room program for the school. She served on the Governor’s Educator Improvement Task Force to establish performance standards for new teachers entering the field of education. She was active in the county, state, and regional chapters of the National Education Association.
Mrs. Hay was a lifelong activist for social justice for those without a voice. She worked tirelessly for civil rights and school desegregation, was active with the League of Women Voters, and served as local precinct president of the Democratic Party. Her example of advocacy has inspired her daughters throughout their lives, and led to their establishing a nonprofit advocacy organization in her honor, Our Mother’s Voice.
The daughter and wife of Presbyterian (USA) ministers, Mrs. Hay was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Clinton in many capacities, including teaching children’s Sunday school classes, singing in the choir, chairing the planning committee for the congregational life center building project, serving as elder, earning the status of elder emeritus, and acting as a delegate to the national General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Hay’s love of the arts was expressed in her community as well, with her active involvement in the local Music Club and as a participating artist in the founding of the Artist’s Coop, a nonprofit cooperative art gallery in Laurens, SC. Her paintings reveal her joy of life and her exuberant spirit. Her artwork has been sold and displayed at numerous locations in the area. She donated the use of one painting to create note cards for fundraising at her church.
In addition to her devoted husband of 61 years, Mrs. Hay is survived by her daughters, Katharine Hay Bradley and her husband John of Lugoff, SC, and Carol Makemie Hay of Hillsborough, NC; her beloved granddaughter, Caitlin Kennedy Bradley of Brooklyn, NY; her sister, Roberta Jones Austin of Boone, NC; her brother, W. Ted Jones, Jr. and wife Elaine of Sudbury, MA; and many nieces and nephews and their children.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Agnes Scott College, 141 E. College Ave., Decatur, GA 30030, designated in memory of Carol Jones Hay ’54.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.grayfuneralhome.com
Gray Funeral Home of Clinton
Clinton, S.C. –
Carol Jones Hay, wife of the Rev. Dr. Lewis S. “Pete” Hay, died on Friday, February 20, 2015. Interment will be private, with a memorial service held at First Presbyterian Church, Clinton, at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 26, 2015. A reception will follow in the church Fellowship Hall.
Born in Bartow, Florida, on October 17, 1932, she was the younger daughter of the late Rev. Dr. W. Ted Jones and Eloise Knight Jones. Mrs. Hay received her B.A. in Music from Agnes Scott College and her Master’s in Education from the University of South Carolina, with credentials in several areas of special education. She taught kindergarten for underserved children in Princeton, NJ, and later was a special education teacher at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, Sanders Elementary School in Laurens, and Thornwell School in Clinton, where she established the resource room program for the school. She served on the Governor’s Educator Improvement Task Force to establish performance standards for new teachers entering the field of education. She was active in the county, state, and regional chapters of the National Education Association.
Mrs. Hay was a lifelong activist for social justice for those without a voice. She worked tirelessly for civil rights and school desegregation, was active with the League of Women Voters, and served as local precinct president of the Democratic Party. Her example of advocacy has inspired her daughters throughout their lives, and led to their establishing a nonprofit advocacy organization in her honor, Our Mother’s Voice.
The daughter and wife of Presbyterian (USA) ministers, Mrs. Hay was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Clinton in many capacities, including teaching children’s Sunday school classes, singing in the choir, chairing the planning committee for the congregational life center building project, serving as elder, earning the status of elder emeritus, and acting as a delegate to the national General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Hay’s love of the arts was expressed in her community as well, with her active involvement in the local Music Club and as a participating artist in the founding of the Artist’s Coop, a nonprofit cooperative art gallery in Laurens, SC. Her paintings reveal her joy of life and her exuberant spirit. Her artwork has been sold and displayed at numerous locations in the area. She donated the use of one painting to create note cards for fundraising at her church.
In addition to her devoted husband of 61 years, Mrs. Hay is survived by her daughters, Katharine Hay Bradley and her husband John of Lugoff, SC, and Carol Makemie Hay of Hillsborough, NC; her beloved granddaughter, Caitlin Kennedy Bradley of Brooklyn, NY; her sister, Roberta Jones Austin of Boone, NC; her brother, W. Ted Jones, Jr. and wife Elaine of Sudbury, MA; and many nieces and nephews and their children.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Agnes Scott College, 141 E. College Ave., Decatur, GA 30030, designated in memory of Carol Jones Hay ’54.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.grayfuneralhome.com
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