Bernadine Hayward

Jul 21, 2003 | Obituaries

O. Bernadine ?Bernie? Hayward, an 88 year-old resident of O?Fallon, died on Saturday, July 19, 2003 at the Gardenview Care Center in O?Fallon.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 at the Princeton United Methodist Church with the Rev. Stan Lowrey officiating under the direction of the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Service of Princeton. Burial will be in the Princeton Cemetery.

Open visitation will begin at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 at the funeral home. A family visitation will be at the church from noon until service time at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Mrs. Hayward was born on a farm near Davis City, IA on Sept. 26, 1914, the daughter of Enoch Sterling and Nellie Florence Fulton Burrell. She was raised in the Davis City area. She received a teacher?s certificate from Simpson College in Indianola, IA and taught a few years in Decatur County, IA, rural schools. She lived most of her adult life in Princeton, where she was owner and manager of the Haven Cafe. She was a member of the Princeton United Methodist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star and Laureate Delta Beta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority at Princeton.

She was married on Aug. 10, 1935 in Kansas City to Ralph Dee Hayward, who preceded her in death on May 3, 1988.

Mrs. Hayward moved from Princeton to Las Vegas, NV in 1990, then to O?Fallon in 2000 to live with her daughter, Carole. She had been a resident of the Grandview Care Center since February of this year. She loved the arts, especially painting and playing the piano and organ.

Mrs. Hayward is survived by two daughters, Carole Ann Kauffman of O?Fallon and Kitty Needels and her husband, Warren, of Woodlands, TX; one son, Philip Hayward and his wife, Judy, of Arlington, TX; one sister, Kitty West, and her husband, John, of Las Vegas; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters, five brothers and a son-in-law, Ed Kauffman.