Susan Gail Tichenor Hayes, born October 25, 1946, left this world too soon on July 11th, 2024 in Centralia Washington, her life cut short by a valiant but all too brief battle with pancreatic cancer.
Susan grew up in Elizabeth, Hillside, and then Far Hills New Jersey, and got her bachelor’s degree in history at Randolph Macon Women’s College, one of the last all female colleges in the US. She always thought she would be a teacher, but instead ended up spending most of her working life as a Librarian after getting her masters in library sciences at Catholic University in the late 80’s. Susan was the best librarian you could ever meet, a great manager of others who took excellent care of the patrons and acquired more than enough copies of all the right books, which was her favorite part of her job.
Susan's favorite things in life, aside from her children, included books, word games, travel, knitting and crocheting, watching sports (especially football, car racing and the Olympics), anything with pockets such as pants, dresses and night gowns, licorice, and rescue dogs, not necessarily in that order. The love of travel was formed during many years of moving all over the world as part of a military family, and culminated in a commitment to
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