Funeral service for Leota Faye Hayes, 80, Lawton will be at 10:00am Tuesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Pastor John Butler, Beal Heights Presbyterian Church officiating. Mrs. Hayes passed away Friday in a Lawton hospital. Burial will be at 3:00pm Tuesday in the Independence Cemetery, Vinson, Oklahoma, under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Leota was born October 4, 1930 in Altus Oklahoma to Dave Sylvane and Mary Nell (White) Harper. She graduated from Loco High School and later attended college at Central State College in Edmond. She married Paul M. Hayes on April 7, 1950 in Duncan, Oklahoma. Leota worked at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company from 1950 until 1958. She and her husband moved to Lawton in 1961, where Leota was a homemaker and helped with the family remodeling and rental business. She worked with Sunday school at Westwood Baptist Church, PTA at B.C. Swinney School and the Camp Fire Girl organization when her children were young. Her greatest joys were her 3 daughters and her 4 grandsons. Survivors include her husband Paul Hayes of the home, daughter Paula Caha and her husband Ronnie and son Jason of Lawton, OK, daughter Carol King of Guymon, OK and her son Andrew and wife Katie of Lawton, OK, daughter Kimberly Charters of Sapulpa, OK and her two sons, Paul and wife Kara and their daughter Hannah of Clarksville, TN and Kenneth Charters, Jr. of Tulsa, OK. 3 brothers and their spouses, Vallon and wife Jeannie Harper, Terry and wife Norma Harper, Dale and wife Carol Harper, sister Kay and husband Wendell Peterson and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, devoted Aunt Merceed Lain, Uncles Erskine Lain and Stanley Harper and a Cousin Larry Harper. Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.