Marie Hayes

Marie Estella Lucca Hayes of Lutts, TN passed from this life on March 12, 2024, at the North Alabama Medical Center in Florence, AL. making her stay on this earth some 86 years, 8 months and 15 days. She was born to the late Robert Baptista Lucca and Margaret Theophillis Kinkin Lucca on June 27, 1937, in Rickson, Ill. Mrs. Hayes was united in marriage to John Thomas Hayes on August 15, 1957, and to whom she remained married to until his passing in 2020. She possessed a love for children as she was a retired Teachers Assistant specializing in teaching children with special needs and also serving as a substitute teacher throughout her career. She enjoyed sports as her hobbies included watching basketball and golf in her spare time, working puzzles and enjoying nature in the countryside in which she called home. Mrs. Hayes was a long-time member of the Mt. Hope Church of Christ in Lutts, TN. She loved her family, church, community as well as many friends and will be sorely missed by all who knew and loved her.

She is survived by her sons Roberts Hayes of Lutts, TN and John Hayes with wife Brenda in Iron City, TN, grandchildren Sabrina Griffin and husband J.D.  of Mt. Pleasant, TN, Matthew Hayes of Iron City, TN; Michael Hayes, Jerod Winnie and Chad Winnie; great-grandchildren include Anniston Griffin and Gatlin Griffin and brother George  Kaldem

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her daughter Tammy Hayes who passed in the year of 2023.

Services will be held Saturday March 16,2024 at the Mt. Hope Church of Christ in Lutts at 3:00 pm with Mike Andrews officiating.

Visitation will begin March 16,2024 at the Mt. Hope Church of Christ from 1:00 pm until service time at 3:00 pm

Burial will follow in the Mt. Hope Church of Christ Cemetery.

Bates-Love Funeral and Cremation, LLC is honored to serve the Hayes family during this their time of grief. 

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