“Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.” (Courtesy of his friend Judith Mead) Jesse Clair Hay, Jr., age 77, of Pipe Creek, Texas passed away Friday, Sept. 11, 2020 at home in Pipe Creek. He was born March 16, 1943 on the tip of Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (RGV) in the city of Mission, Texas. Jesse went to RGV schools in San Benito, Harlingen and Edinburg, where he started to emulate James Dean a little too much and was sent to the San Marcos Military Academy. He was an Air Force ...