Evelyn Smith Hayden

August 30, 1929 - June 26, 2016

Services for Evelyn Smith Hayden, 86, will be 11:00 a.m., Thursday, at Bridgeport Christian Church, 175 Evergreen Road, Frankfort, KY 40601. Rev. Keith McAliley and Phil Case will officiate, with burial to follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., Wednesday at LeCompte Johnson Taylor Funeral Home, 1725 Louisville Road, Frankfort, KY 40601 and 10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m., Thursday at the church. Evelyn was born in Owen County to Ralph Thomas and Rachel Littrell Smith. The family moved to Franklin County where she lived most of her life and raised her family. Evelyn was a lifelong member of Bridgeport Christian Church and the women’s Helping Hands Circle, the Louisville Road Homemakers Club, and Eastern Star Hiram Lodge 93. She was a Kentucky Colonel, a volunteer at the Senior Center, an avid UK fan, and enjoyed traveling with family and friends. She is known for her homemade jam cakes, yeast rolls and Thanksgiving meals. Her home was never too small to squeeze one more around the dinner table. Through the years, she worked at J.J. Newberry’s, Blue Bonnet and was retired from KY State Government where she was an Administrative Bookkeeper at the Department of Human Resources, WIC Program and member of the Ten-ure Club. She died Sunday at Baptist Health Hospital in Lexington, KY. Survivors include her sons, Cecil Hayden (Joan), Frankfort, Jim Hayden (Shirley), Columbia, TN, Bill Hayden (Cora), Lexington, Larry Hayden (Annette), Frankfort; a daughter-in-law; Monika Hayden, Lawrenceburg; a brother, Jimmie Smith (Ann), Frankfort; twelve grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren, and one great- great grandchild. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, William Arthur Hayden; son, Arthur Hayden; brothers W.R. and Ralph Smith, and sisters, Bonnie Smith and Margaret Dean. Pallbearers will be Jason Jackson, Tom Brown, and grandsons Stephen, Will (FL), Casey, and Chris Hayden. Honorary pallbearers will be grandchildren Jamie and Ryan Hayden (TN), Krista Jackson, Shellee Hayden, Kathy Brown, Pam Maillet, Andrew Ingram, and Claudia Malik (NJ). Contributions may be made to Bridgeport Christian Church Elevator Fund, 175 Evergreen Road, Frankfort, KY 40601. You may share memories and leave condolences on her tribute wall at www.ljtfuneralhome.com.