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Annabelle Mae “Annie” Hayhoe

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TypePerson
Born1928
Died2009
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Person
Born
1928
Died
2009
Work
President, Holy Cross Altar Society
Member of
Holy Cross Catholic Church
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
healthcarereligioncommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Annabelle Mae “Annie” Hayhoe (1928-2009) moved to Beaver Island in 1972 with her husband Russell “Tink” Hayhoe and became, over nearly two decades, one of the island’s more visible community volunteers and small-business owners: Holy Cross Altar Society president, an accounting-business proprietor, a florist, and later a bed-and-breakfast keeper. A 1988 Beaver Beacon profile supplies most of this biography; a February 2009 memorial in the same paper supplied her full name and the dates the earlier notices had left incomplete.

History

A 1988 profile in the Beacon, prompted by her most recent move, recounts how the Hayhoes arrived: Russell had hunted on Beaver Island for years and told Annie he would never bring her there, certain she would never want to leave once she saw it; a year to the day after her first visit, the couple sold their excavating business in Gaylord and moved to the island in 1972, when the year-round population was 172.1 They first bought a house across from the Marine Museum, and Annie started an accounting business that she later sold; by 1988 it had passed through Gaye Works to Edie Wilmot.1

Annie became a visible presence in island civic life through the mid- and late 1970s. The Beacon elected her Holy Cross Altar Society president at the society’s January 1974 meeting, printed as “Annie Heyhoe.”2 That November, a hospital note placed her, as “Anne Heyhoe,” at the Osteopathic Hospital in Traverse City, room 204, with no diagnosis given.3 In July 1976 she led the Bicentennial parade’s Color Guard to her own drum cadence, “marching (and limping),” in a parade themed on the island’s history from Mormon settlement through the present day.4 In April 1976 the paper reported that “Mrs. Annie Hayhoe has opened her florist shop ‘The Flower Pot’ for business.”5 In April 1978 she chaperoned the school’s 5th-through-8th-grade class trip to Greenfield Village and Lansing,6 and that July she served on the Medical Center Building Fund’s dance committee, which netted over $2,800 for the building fund.7 In December 1979 the island’s community Progressive Dinner began at “Hayhoe’s,” her home, before moving to the Parish Hall.8 In spring 1980 she appeared in a Beacon item as a member of the “Easter Bonnet Gang” touring the island with Vera Wojan and the Rafferty sisters,9 and that August the paper carried a full-page advertisement for “Annie Hayhoe’s Country Inn,” which a later retrospective calls “an adult care facility which never really got going.”10

In 1978 the Hayhoes had moved to a property on King’s Highway deeded, by the 1988 profile’s account, to Wingfield Watson by James Jesse Strang; after the Mormons left the island, Willie Ricksgers obtained the land under the Homestead Act and built the house on it. The Hayhoes redecorated it and began hosting guests, an early bed-and-breakfast operation; Annie later said she had cooked sixteen years on its wood-burning stove.1 In summer 1981 the island’s Sweet Adelines singing chorus met weekly at her home,11 and in February 1984 she served on a committee appointed to review an organization’s bylaws and present a slate of officers, alongside Larry Delamater, Bill Wagner, and five others; the source does not name the organization beyond describing a meeting that also addressed turkey poaching and DNR enforcement, suggesting a sportsmen’s or conservation club.12

Russell “Tink” Hayhoe died in 1984. Afterward Annie sold the King’s Highway house – bought that spring of 1988 by new teachers Jim and Donna Stambaugh13 – and moved to a smaller property, the “Mooney house” built in 1980, continuing her bed-and-breakfast business at the new address.1

Her February 2009 memorial in the Beacon, “In Memory: Annie HayHoe,” supplied the fuller identity behind decades of variant spellings: she was Annabelle Mae Hayhoe, born 1928, and died at a Grayling nursing home.14

Evidence and limits

The 1988 profile is a first-person community feature, not a public record, and its account of the King’s Highway property’s Strang-era chain of title (Wingfield Watson, then Willie Ricksgers under the Homestead Act) is reported here as the profile states it, not independently verified against GLO or patent records. No source read for this article gives a maiden name, an exact birth date, or a precise founding or closing date for the accounting business, the florist shop, or either bed-and-breakfast venture; whether “The Flower Pot” and the later “Country Inn” and unnamed bed-and-breakfast were sequential or overlapping businesses is not resolved.

Open questions

  • What is the relationship between Annie Hayhoe’s accounting business, “The Flower Pot” florist shop (1976), “Country Inn” adult care facility (1980), and her later bed-and-breakfast operations – sequential ventures, or concurrent ones?
  • Does a GLO patent or plat record confirm the 1988 profile’s account that the King’s Highway property was deeded to Wingfield Watson by James Jesse Strang and later obtained by Willie Ricksgers under the Homestead Act?
  • What was Russell “Tink” Hayhoe’s cause of death and full record on the island beyond the 1988 profile’s single mention of his 1984 death?

See also

Footnotes

  1. Beaver Beacon, June 1988, community profile (“Annie Hayhoe Has Moved Again”). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Beaver Beacon, January 1974, “New Officers.” ↩

  3. Beaver Beacon, November 1974, “Hospital Notes.” ↩

  4. Beaver Beacon, July 1976, Bicentennial parade report. ↩

  5. Beaver Beacon, April 1976, “New Business Opens.” ↩

  6. Beaver Beacon, April 1978, school trip report. ↩

  7. Beaver Beacon, August 1978, Medical Center Building Fund report. ↩

  8. Beaver Beacon, December 1979, holiday-season community report. ↩

  9. Beaver Beacon, April 1980, community notes column. ↩

  10. “On This Date,” Beaver Beacon, August 2010, Thirty Years Ago. ↩

  11. Beaver Beacon, June 1981, community notes. ↩

  12. Beaver Beacon, February 1984, club meeting report. ↩

  13. Beaver Beacon, November 1988, faculty profile of Jim Stambaugh. ↩

  14. Beaver Beacon, February 2009, “In Memory: Annie HayHoe.” ↩

The dated record

2 dated events · 1928–2009These years on the timeline →

Sources

  1. Reports Anne Heyhoe as a patient at the Osteopathic Hospital in Traverse City and gives a room number for correspondence; the notice does not provide a diagnosis or medical record.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eight-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-11_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Prints Annie Heyhoe as president of the Holy Cross Altar Society.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-01_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-01_Beaver-Beacon
  5. Memorial identifies Annabelle Mae Hayhoe (1928–2009), says she died at a Grayling nursing home, and describes Annie and husband Russell “Tink” Hayhoe as Island mainstays in the 1970s. The year, locality, name variant, and period directly bridge this memorial to the 1974 notices.
  6. Reports Annie Hayhoe opening The Flower Pot florist shop and lists plants, gardening supplies, shamrocks, and floral arrangements. It does not provide a business registration or complete operating history. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1976-04_Beaver-Beacon
  7. The held issue confirms the opening and advertisement.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1976-04_Beaver-Beacon
  8. The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-01_Beaver-Beacon
  9. First-person profile: the Hayhoes moved to Beaver Island in 1972 (population 172) after selling their Gaylord excavating business; bought a house across from the Marine Museum; Annie ran an accounting business later sold to Gaye Works, then Edie Wilmot. In 1978 they moved to a King's Highway property said to have been deeded to Wingfield Watson by James Jesse Strang and later obtained by Willie Ricksgers under the Homestead Act, where they began an early bed-and-breakfast. Russell 'Tink' Hayhoe died in 1984; Annie then sold the King's Highway house and bought the 'Mooney house' (built 1980), continuing the bed-and-breakfast there. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1988-06_Beaver-Beacon
  10. Reports that a Color Guard representing 'the Spirit of '76' led the parade 'marching (and limping) to the drum cadence of Annie Hayhoe,' in a parade themed on island history from Mormon settlement to the present. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1976-07_Beaver-Beacon
  11. Names Anne Hayhoe among the chaperones (with Joe Moore, Don 'Hogie' Hogan, and Dottie Hogan) for the 5th-through-8th-grade class trip to Greenfield Village and Lansing. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1978-04_Beaver-Beacon
  12. Reports the July 22 Benefit Dance, organized by a committee including Anne Hayhoe, Donald Hogan, Ed Davis, and Al Dudzik, netted over $2,800 for the Medical Center Building Fund after $750 in expenses. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1978-08_Beaver-Beacon
  13. Reports the December 28 island Progressive Dinner began with a first stop 'at Hayhoe's, next to the Rectory basement,' before moving to the Parish Hall, with proceeds benefiting Holy Cross's CCD program. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1979-12_Beaver-Beacon
  14. Names Ann Hayhoe among the 'Easter Bonnet Gang' (with Vera Wojan, Harriet and Nancy Rafferty, and Joannie Rafferty DesChamps) touring the island in decorated Easter bonnets. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1980-04_Beaver-Beacon
  15. "On This Date," Beaver Beacon, August 2010, Thirty Years Ago.
    Retrospective on the single August 1980 Beacon issue notes it carried a full-page advertisement for 'Annie Hayhoe's Country Inn, an adult care facility which never really got going'; the original 1980 ad itself is not separately confirmed in the held corpus. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 2010-08_Beaver-Beacon
  16. Reports the island's Sweet Adelines chorus meeting weekly at 'Anne Hayhoes'' during the summer of 1981. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1981-06_Beaver-Beacon
  17. Names Ann Hayhoe among a committee (with Larry Delamater, Bill Wagner, Mark LaFreniere, Hugh Cole, Karl Heller, Dave Roop, and Lois Backofen) appointed to review bylaws and present a slate of officers; the organization is not named in the excerpt read, though the same report discusses turkey stocking and DNR poaching enforcement. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1984-02_Beaver-Beacon
  18. Notes that new BICS teacher Jim Stambaugh and his wife Donna purchased 'Annie Hayhoe's spacious home' in spring 1988, corroborating and dating the June 1988 profile's account of the King's Highway house sale. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    beaver_beacon · 1988-11_Beaver-Beacon

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 5 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Annabelle Mae “Annie” Hayhoe”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/annabelle-mae-annie-hayhoe/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 1974, “Hospital Notes.” (and 16 further sources listed on the page).

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