Mary Hair Heyward

Margaret Hair Heyward, 90, died Friday, Feb. 24, at her home in Bluffton.The Rev. Chuck Owens, rector of Church of the Cross, conducted the service of Christian burial at the Bluffton Cemetery Sunday afternoon.A member of the Church of the Cross for more than 50 years, Mrs. Heyward served in various ministries of the church. In the 1950s and 1960s she was substitute pianist and organist and with her husband led the youth organization. She served as a lay reader and a choir member. She played bongo drums in Crossroads, the church praise band; played tambourine for various worship services; played piano for the Food Bank. For about 10 years, she held weekly Monday morning Bible classes in her home. She was a long-term volunteer for Calhoun Station and a long-term chaplain for the Bluffton Garden Club.For about 25 years, Mrs. Heyward owned and operated a beauty salon in a converted back porch of what is now the Heyward House Historic Center. For about 10 years, she was the only hairdresser working in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton areaShe was born Jan. 26, 1922, on a farm in Barnwell County, one of five children of Lottie Zorn Hair and Joseph Ernest Hair.In 1941 she married Daniel Hasell Heyward Jr. of Bluffton. They lived in the Charleston area for about a year before moving to Bluffton, where they lived for the rest of both of their lives. In 1946 they designed and built a bungalow at the corner of Lawton and Boundary Street. In 1957 they bought the Heyward House on Bridge and Boundary Street from a member of the Heyward family.After her husband died in 1997, Mrs. Heyward sold the Heyward House to the Bluffton Historical Preservation Society, which developed it into a house museum, and built a new home on Lawton Street.Surviving members of the family are daughters Fran Heyward Bollin and her husband William Herman