Stillwater, Oklahoma - Victor Raymond Hayes, age 86, died on January 1, 2023, at Legacy Village, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Family will greet friends on Friday, January 6, 2023, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Strode Funeral Home. The service will be Saturday January 7th, 2023, at 10 a.m. at Strode Funeral Home Chapel, with burial at Fairlawn cemetery. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

He was born September 6, 1936, in Enid, Oklahoma, to Raymond F. Hayes and Grace Velma West Hayes.

He graduated from Enid High School in 1954 and attended Oklahoma University, where he was a member of the 1956 national championship football team. He graduated with a degree in Business.

He and Rochelle Hausman were married, and they moved to Fort Lee, Virginia, where he served in the U.S. Army. They had two children, Victoria Lynn Hayes and Jon Bradley Hayes.

He was married to Malinda Jones and had one son, Bryan Jones Hayes.

In 1990 he married JoAnne "Jody" Hart Bernhardt.

After his service in the Army they moved to Denison, Texas, where he managed his father's trucking business, as well as homebuilding. In the fall of 1967, he was hired by IBM in their new business division in Houston. In 1970 he returned to again run his father's business. Then it was back to Houston, where he opened an office and started arranging financing in the commercial and multifamily real estate and equipment leasing business. In 1974, he moved to Phoenix and spent 15 years in the residential mortgage business. He returned to Enid in 1989 and started working with longtime friends E.R. and Lou Andrew selling real estate.

He is survived by his wife Jody; his daughter Vicki Cummins and her husband Randy; his son Brad; his son Brian and his wife Tamara; Jody's children, Bret Bernhardt and his wife Ellie, Cindy Puterka and her husband Gary, Andy Bernhardt and his wife Terri. He is also survived by his sister Ann Shaff, sister Judy Hoistington and her husband Tom, brother Jim Hayes, as well as 15 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren, nephews and nieces.

Memorial contributions in Victor's name may be made to Karman Legacy Hospice, 1311 S. Western Road Stillwater, OK 74074, or to Ray of Sunshine Helping Hands, P.O. Box 187, Morrison, OK 73061

Condolences may be emailed to the family or at www.strodefh.com.