Winifred Hayes Grow Obituary (1913

Mrs. Winifred Hayes Grow, age 96, of Madison, Indiana, entered this life on Thursday, December 18, 1913 in Hamlet, Indiana, the daughter of the late William C. and Cora Myer Hayes. Mrs. Grow graduated from Hamlet High School in 1931 and received a nursing degree from the University of Michigan, School of Nursing. She completed her nurse's training at the South Shore Hospital In Chicago, Illinois. She was united in marriage on Wednesday, March 26, 1941 in Jeffersonville, Indiana to Cecil F. Grow and they made their home in Madison the same year. Cecil was inducted in the United States Army in 1943 and served as a Sergeant in the European theater while Winifred served as a nurse with the Red Cross during World War II. After the war, she was employed for 8 years as a nurse at the Madison State Hospital and was later the first nurse appointed by the State of Indiana to the Jefferson County Health Department. Mrs. Grow enjoyed reading and knitting and was a member of Tri Kappa Sorority, the Madison Elks Club, the old Madison Country Club and Trinity United Methodist Church in downtown Madison. Mrs. Grow died Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 2:00 a.m. at The Water's of Clifty Falls in Madison Indiana. A LOVING FAMILY Winifred will be missed by her daughter: Jennifer Hayes Grow; her nephews: Paul and Luther Ferch, Wendall and Robert Oberlin, Dale and Thomas Hayes and her niece: Pat Boyd. She was preceded in death by her parents: William C. and Cora Myer Hayes; her husband: Cecil F. Grow died, September 23, 2009; her sisters: Gertrude Braman, Edith Short, Flora Ferch, and Lillian Oberlin and her brother: Samuel Hayes. FUNERAL CEREMONY Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., by The Reverend Donald G. Bradley at Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive, Madison, Indiana. Interment will follow in the Springdale Cemetery in downtown Madison, Indiana. VISITATION Friends may call Sunday, September 19, 2010, from 1:00 p.m. until time of the service at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive, Madison, Indiana. MEMORIAL EXPRESSIONS Memorial contributions may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church. Cards are available at the funeral home. To send a flower arrangement in memory of Winifred Hayes Grow, please click here to visit our sympathy store.