Dorothy I. Hayes, 89, of Lyons, died Monday, Oct. 23, 2000, at Oakland Memorial Hospital in Oakland.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, Oct. 26, at the First Presbyterian Church in Lyons. The Rev. Donald Drury officiated. Interment was at the Lyons Cemetery.

Dorothy Iverne Hayes was born May 20, 1911, in Arlington to Otto and Carrie (Bates) Kempcke. She attended school in Scottsbluff and graduated from Blackbird High School, near Lyons.

On Sept. 20, 1933, she married Robert L. Hayes in Lyons. The couple farmed near Lyons for several years. After moving into Lyons, Mrs. Hayes worked for Campbell Soup Company in Fremont, and later at Integrated Health Services in Lyons as a nurses side.

Mrs. Hayes was a baptized member of the First Presbyterian Church in Lyons, and a member of the Presbyterian Women. She was also a member of a monthly coffee club and the Garden Club in Lyons.

Survivors include 11 children and their spouses: Betty and Dean Peck of Hooper; Bob and Janice Hayes of Dakota City; Peggy and Jim Goetzinger of Boone, Iowa; Russle and Jean Hayes of Duncanville, Texas; Marilyn Whitsell of Topeka, Kan.; Larry Hayes, Karen Hayes and Bonnie Hayes, all of Lyons; Patty and Darwin Maxwell of Webster, Wis.; Nancy Hayes of Decatur; and Ginny Hemphill of Seward. Other survivors include two daughters-in-law, Colleen Hayes of Oakland and Connie Hayes of Lyons; 25 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandsons. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert; two sons, Norman and Richard; an infant daughter; grandsons, Bobby Whitsell and Jason Reese; her three sisters, Irene Hayes, Helen Svendsen and Ed Marie Pond, as well as two brothers, Bill Kempcke and Russ Kempcke.

Piper Funeral Home in Lyons was in charge of services.

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