Hayward, James Paul (1863-1951)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1952 Jan 17 p. 8

Birth date: 1863 Jul 15

text of obituary:

JAMES P. HAYWARD

James Paul Hayward was born July 15, 1863, near Acton, Mass. His parents were Sarah Webber Hayward and Joel F. Hayward.

He was reared in a Christian home. When just a youth he assumed the care of the family working in day time and going to evening school and taking correspondence work. By this method he received a good education.

He was an architect for many years, building homes in Chicago and vicinity. Later he came west to Idaho, where he built the Bethany Deaconess hospital. Then he helped to build the community which is now Glendale, California.

Always a friend of the deaconess hospital, he came to Salem, Oregon, and was employed as hospital engineer since 1928. He helped to construct the north unit and also in 1935 the south unit of the Memorial hospital.

In 1931 he married Sue Jordan, who preceded him in death in 1940. After her death he was very lonely until in March of 1944 when he married Sister Anna H. Duerksen.

In his later years he kept busy as checking clerk in cafeteria and book eeper in the diet office, until the first part of September. He was a patient since Sept. 17, 1951, and on Dec. 3, 1951, at 9:50 a.m. the Lord called him home.

He leaves his wife Anna Duerksen Hayward; two sisters, Minnie Marsh, Detroit, Mich., and Martha Wyckaff, St. Petersbury, Fla.; sister-in-law, Grace Hayward, and a number of nieces and nephews, besides a host of friends.