Funeral services for John Hayes will be held Sunday, July 14, 2013, at 11:00 AM EDT from the Five Points Baptist Church. Dr. Carl Holladay and Dr. Max Miller will officiate. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
The family will greet friends, Saturday afternoon from 4:00 PM EDT until 6:00 PM EDT at McCarthy Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers donations are asked to be made to Chattahoochee Humane Society, 3265 Fairfax Bypass, Valley, Alabama, 36854, (334) 756-9377, www.chatthumane.org, in Mr. Hayes honor.
Professional services provided by McCarthy Funeral Home Inc. in West Point Georgia. http://www.Mccarthyfuneralhomeinc.com
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Leave a tributeI ALSO ENJOY THE BOOK YOU GAVE ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND REMEMBER I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. WISH WE COULD HAVE GONE TO THE HOLY LAND TOGETHER. ALWAYS --SUE
Then, yesterday I figured it out. I had missed your birthday. Maybe that's the way the afterlife works. Are we able to communicate in some wonderful way?
I miss you my friend more every day.
I'm getting older and demented each day that passes but my soul is still connected to yours. It is such a joy.
Your Christian Atheist and forever friend.
And btw, you would be so proud of Heather and her accomplishments. Of course, you already know.
Lester Shivers Shepherd 10-21-1941
Penny was put to sleep today. She had a heat stroke and was completely out of her mind unless she could be with Martha or myself. Then, she was a calm as an angel, standing beside us drooling and breathing heavily. Maxine misses her terribly. They did such a good job of protecting others, just like you my friend forever. I wish you had not left me.
Lester the Pester
My favorite and still miss you!!!.
John Hayes was a "Piper to the End". This video of Mark Knopfler reminds me of John; bluejeans; even looks like him, with all the emotion of his true and simple heart appearing on his face and his waving good-bye at the end.
Verse 3
"This has been a day to die for
Now the day has almost gone
Up above a single seabird (John)
Turns to face the setting sun"
Verse 6
"This has been a day to die on
Now the day is almost done
Here the pipes will lay beside me
Silent will the battle drum"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsrKWwx3x7o
The song reminds me that John, indeed, passionately utilized the battle drum and pipes, in perfect time, as strong and loud as any human being I have known. He didn't need a gun; he had blessed words as fine as the beatitudes. I should have tried to touch the hem of his garments more often.
Verse 5
"We watched the fires together
Shared our quarters for a while
Walked the dusty roads together
Came so many miles."
John's life was a peace giving life!
When you sought his advice, John, of course, wasn't perfect, unless you listened. He just knew. He always just knew. I remember him giving me many an answer that changed my life for the better, but, once or twice or ... , I did choose to see it. Now I do and will try to make up time, at last.
LSS
Hopefully, A Piper To The End
Whisper’d of peace, and truth, and friendliness unquell’d.
Dr. Hayes was a dear friend and mentor during my seminary days. He was a humble, wise, gentle, and wonderful man with amazing intellect and a marvelous sense of humor. He will be missed, but his legacy will live on. Thanks be to God for John Hayes!
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I ALSO ENJOY THE BOOK YOU GAVE ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND REMEMBER I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. WISH WE COULD HAVE GONE TO THE HOLY LAND TOGETHER. ALWAYS --SUE
Dr. Hayes was my advisor in seminary and co-leader of my contextual education group. Not only that, but I also had him for both sections of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and a seminar class on the Psalms. So we got to know one another fairly well. He also welcomed my family to his Alabama farm on two different occasions.
But my best story regarding Dr. Hayes involved sharing during a critique in con ed. I had noticed in my courses with Dr. Hayes that he often engaged in self-deprecating humor when it came to his own publications (of course referring to himself as John Smell Fungus!). He clearly had a humble view of himself that at times seemed to border low self-esteem (in my overconfident seminarian perspective at the time!). Consequently, during a critique of one another I told him that he should take more pride in his work and not be so self-deprecating. The result was this: A number of weeks later during my second section of OT/Hebrew Bible (a large lecture-style course) Dr. Hayes was lecturing when he cited some excellent OT scholarship. The work was his own, and he referred to it as "work done by the preeminent OT scholar, Dr. John Hayes!" He then looked around the room, and said, "is Tony Griffin in here?" I raised my hand and when we made eye contact he said, "How's that?" My response was: "Much better!" No one in that large class had a clue what was happening.
He was a wonderful man. I will miss him.