He was born Sept. 9, 1986, in Poplar Bluff, Mo., to Boyce Alan Hays and Diana Suzanne Blakemore.
He was a student at Three Rivers Community College and a member of the First Southern Baptist Church in Malden, Mo.
Preceding him in death were one brother, Adam Boyce Hays, and his grandparents, Paul and Joyce Hays.
Survivors include his mother, Diana Blakemore of Van Buren, Mo.; father and stepmother, Boyce and Becky Hays of Campbell; one sister, Taylor Patricia Hays of Campbell; two brothers, Carson Ryan Hays and Curtis Littrell of Campbell; grandparents, Joe and Frieda Blakemore of Holcomb, Mo.; great-grandmother, Emogene Hall of Campbell, and numerous aunts and uncles that loved him very much.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, at First Baptist Church in Campbell with Rev. Randy Vaughn officiating. Burial was in Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton with Landess Funeral Home of Campbell in charge of arrangements.


