Authorities are trying to find family members of a woman who died last month in Jefferson County.

Her body is ready to be released for burial, but the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office has not been able to locate her next of kin.

Margaret Hall Hayes, 86, died March 30 at Oak Knoll Health and Rehabilitation in Birmingham.

Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said Hayes died of natural causes.

Hayes previously listed an address on Brookside Road in Mount Olive. Her husband, Carlos Ray Hayes, died in 1985 and reportedly they had no children.

Family members are asked to call the coroner’s office at 205-930-3603.