Wasco County OR Archives Obituaries.....Hays, Harold T. June 25, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle,  July 8, 2004
     Harold T. Hays died of cancer June 25, 2004.
     He was born Dec. 13, 1918, the second of three sons to Stuart A. Hays and 
Alice M. (Turner) Hays.
     In 1937 he left the family farm in Audobon County, Iowa and went west to 
Washington. He returned to Iowa in 1938 to attend United Engineering school.   
In 1939 he moved back west to Bremerton. He joined the Navy in 1941 and was 
injured onboard the USS Wasmuth during a depth charge run in the Pacific. He 
was discharged in 1942.
     He worked at the Bremerton Navy Yard before he moved to Seattle, working 
his way into a management position with Frederick and Nelson. In 1948 he moved 
to Colfax, Wash. to manage three bankrupt stores in Colfax, Moscow, and 
Pullman. In 1955 he purchased the Quality shoe store in The Dalles. He renamed 
the store Sharolds, and for the next 37 years called The Dalles and the Mid-
Columbia home.
     Most of his life was centered around his shoe store. Three of his 
children worked there as they grew up, and he met his wife of 30 years, Susie, 
there. His store was noted for its indoor slide. He sold the sold the store in 
1989 and started building houses in Dallesport. In 1991 he moved to Bridgeport 
and built his last house. 
     He loved to cook, ride motorcycles and drive fast cars, and was always 
building or remodeling a home. Earlier, he enjoyed flying and was a captain in 
the Civil Air Patrol. He was active in various local organizations including 
the The Dalles Chamber of Commerce. He fought to remove the parking meters 
from downtown The Dalles. He liked a good adventure, and at age 71 he and his 
wife spent two months in an isolated hamlet on the Cam Rahn peninsula in 
Vietnam. After a triple bypass at age 79 he piled into a van with some of his 
Hispanic friends for a two-week road trip to the Mexican gulf coast.
He is survived by his wife Susie, daughter Tarese, sons Allen, Richard, Roger, 
Robert and Shaun, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
     Private cremation was in Wenatchee, Wash. Memorials may be made to 
Okanagon Home Health and Hospice, 800 S. Jasmine, Suite 2, Omak, Wash. 98841.


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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