about Don Hay

The Hay’s came to the USA from Scotland through Canada in the 1700’s

The background of this site is derived from the Clan Hay tartan.

Don Hay was born April 10, 1913 in Niwot Colorado. At age of five months, he went to Vigan on the Northwest side of Luzon Island in the Philippines with his missionary parents and lived there for eight years. Upon his return to the USA Don lived in Greeley, Colorado where his father was the Pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist church. The Hay family than moved to Omaha, Nebraska. Don graduated from Shelton Academy in 1931 and than spent his freshman year at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Don's next move was to Wala Wala College in Wala Wala, Washington for his sophomore year. School than took a back seat while he tried his hand at a little gold mining, bumming around the country and than going back to Greeley to operate a small cereal factory.

It was here that Don met Edna, his girlfriend for 3 years and his wife for 66 years. During these years he had two more years of college, became the proud father of one daughter, two sons and two grandchildren. He also did some extensive traveling and oversaw several volunteer church building jobs.

Don Hay worked in construction work for many years. He was in charge of construction at the Y.M.C.A of the Rockies conference camp in Estes Park, Colorado and Snow Mountain Ranch conference camp near Granby, Colorado for the last twenty years of his working years. He than retired and moved to Willits, California where he and his wife lived near their daughter for twenty-two years before he died of a stroke in the evening of August 8, 2004.

Don Hay was a faithful worker, a good husband, a great father and a dedicated Christian. He had a good singing voice and loved to play his musical saw. He is greatly missed.

Edna Hay