Jack Williams Hayford was born on June 25, 1934, in Los Angeles, California, to parents Anita Dolores (née Farnsworth) (1916-1997) and Jack Hayford (1911-1979), who had wed two years earlier on September 28, 1932.
Hayford’s neck muscle condition, which existed at birth but later became better, was a problem. In addition to working as a switchman for the Southern Pacific Railroad, his father had been a young military service member.
Dolores Hayford was a Bible teacher who spoke at Women’s Aglow Fellowship and interdenominational women’s seminars (now Aglow International). Hayford has said that even though his parents weren’t always churchgoers, they gave him a Christian upbringing.
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Hayford wed Anna Marie Smith, his college love, on July 4, 1954. Rebecca, Jack III, Mark, and Christa were the couple’s four children. They also had 11 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Early in 2016, Anna received a stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis; she passed away in 2017. The following year, Hayford remarried and settled in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. 2019 saw the end of his public appearances.
The causes of death for Hayford, who passed away on January 8, 2023, at the age of 88, have not been made public.
