Pansy Hayes

Pansy S. (Salisbury) Hayes was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, on October 6, 1922, to Lester Clyde Salisbury and Lillie (Elliot) Salisbury. She passed away December 17, 2016, in Lakewood, Colorado at the age of 94. There will be a brief memorial at Ft. Logan National Cemetery on January 6, 2017, at 11:15 am.

Pansy was married to Robert (Bob) T. Coy in Dallas, Texas, on January 25, 1941. Shortly after their marriage, they moved to Englewood, Colorado. Pansy and Bob had two daughters, Nancy Annelle Hawker, married to Charles Hawker of Simla, Colorado, and Patricia Lee Schmidt, deceased. Pansy and Bob divorced in 1965. Pansy married Edwin D. Hayes on December 24, 1967. Pansy and Ed made their home in Lakewood, Colorado.

Pansy worked as a bookkeeper for various firms for several years until she began her own home-based business in plaster craft in 1966. Her business grew to the point that she opened up her own plaster craft store, Village Craft Shop, at Heritage Square when it reopened in 1971. She later sold Village Craft to her daughter, Patricia, and opened a second store at Heritage Square called Fort Craft and Hobby. After retirement, Pansy and Ed enjoyed boating at Lake Powell in Utah, and spending time at their property at Nathrop, CO. They also spent three months in Malaysia while Ed worked as a contract soil technician on a reservoir project.

Pansy is preceded in death by her husband, Ed (12/18/15), her daughter, Patricia (2007), her grandsons Charles David Hawker, and Robert Phillip Tolvo, her parents and all of her siblings, Lillie Russell, Marion Phillips, Perry Salisbury, Hope Boatman, and her half-brother Albert Salisbury. She is survived by her daughter Nancy, her grandson Andrew Robert Hawker, her granddaughter Nancy Lee Tolvo, five great-grandchildren, Chloe Hawker, Layla Hawker, Robert A. Tolvo, Nicole Tolvo, and Katlyn Tolvo, as well as four great-great grandchildren, as well as many nieces and nephews.