FARMINGTON, N.M. - Annie E. Hays, 77, a former resident of Borger, Texas, and Pampa, Texas, died Wednesday, March 25, 1998.

Services will be at 5 p.m. today (MST) in St. John's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Mark Zimmerman, pastor, officiating. Arrangements are by Alternative Society of Farmington. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Borger with the Rev. Jake Clemmens, rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church of Pampa, officiating. Local arrangements are by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa.

Mrs. Hays was born in Sapulpa, Okla. She moved to Borger in 1965 and worked at the Borger News Herald before retiring in 1984. She moved to Pampa in 1988 and to Farmington in 1991.

She was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Borger and St. John's Episcopal Church in Farmington.

She married Stanley Hays in 1946 at Pampa. He died in 1973.s

Survivors include a son, David Hays of Cheyenne, Wyo.; a daughter, Jennifer Anderson of Farmington; two sisters, Rovena Palmitier of Pampa and Elsie Branton of Norman, Okla.; a brother, J.E. Johnson of Dallas; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

The body will not be available for viewing.