82R16131 MGR-D
By: Anderson of McLennan H.R. No. 1163
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of Lois Mae
Haynes of Waco, who passed away on February 26, 2011, at the age of
87; and
WHEREAS, Born in Minneapolis on July 27, 1923, to Clifford
and Lottie Neff, the former Lois Neff graduated as salutatorian
from her high school in 1941; she enrolled at the University of
Minnesota to study mathematics, but interrupted her formal
education during World War II to become a Curtiss-Wright Cadette;
receiving training at Purdue University, she then went to work at
the Curtiss-Wright plant in Columbus, Ohio, to serve as an
aeronautical engineering aide in the development of a dive bomber;
and
WHEREAS, After the war, she returned to the University of
Minnesota to complete the requirements for a bachelor's degree in
mathematics and to earn a master's degree in educational psychology
in 1947; she taught high school math for six years and met her
future husband, John Harrison Haynes, on an educator's tour of
Europe in 1953; the couple married and moved to East Longmeadow,
Massachusetts, where they raised two sons, Frederick and Robert;
and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Haynes shared 47 years with her husband until
his passing in 2000, and during that time they traveled
extensively, taking long family camping trips throughout the U.S.
and Canada and photographing every county courthouse in the
continental United States; the couple retired to Waco in 1983; a
lifelong lover of books, Mrs. Haynes served as the librarian for the
Providence Park collection in her retirement; she also enjoyed
playing bridge and was an avid stamp collector who belonged to the
Heart of Texas Stamp Club, the American Topical Association, and
state and national philatelic societies; and
WHEREAS, Lois Haynes lived a rich and purposeful life, and
although her absence is keenly felt, she has left those who held her
dear with a wealth of memories to forever treasure; now, therefore,
be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas
Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Lois Mae Haynes and
extend sincere sympathy to the members of her family: to her sons,
Frederick Haynes and his wife, Patricia, and Robert Haynes and his
wife, Marilyn; to her grandsons, Thomas, Stephen, and William; to
her sister, Jeanne Snell; to her nieces, Susan, Kathryn, and Nancy;
and to her other relatives and friends; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of
Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Lois Mae
Haynes.