By Staff
March 8, 2007
Funeral for Mary Lee Haynes, 82, of Camden, S.C., was Saturday, Mar. 10, at 4:00 at Kornegay Funeral Home Camden Chapel in Camden, with Dr. William F. Summers officiating.
Burial was in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Mrs. Haynes went to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 8, 2007. Born in Falkville on Sept. 24, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Earl Lee and Nettie Pearl Crowe Robinson. She graduated from Falkville High School in 1942 and worked for various branches of the federal government including the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Health Education and Welfare. She received an Associate degree in radio broadcasting from Grayson County Community College and was the author of a book on jazz, "Going to Kansas City", and was a free lance writer and regular contributor to the Mississippi Rag. She was a member of New Life Community Church, Asheville, N.C. She was preceeded in death by a daughter, Robyn Underwood Janssen and a brother, Ellis Robinson.
She is survived by her husband, John Lawrence Haynes, Jr., of Camden; two daughters, Leslie Kendall of Asheville, N.C., Suzanne Rhodes and husband Wayne of Virginia Beach, Va.; a step-daughter, Marilyn Higgs, of Mobile; nine grandchildren, Billy Kendall, Danny Kendall and wife Amber, Mary Eileen Kendall, Jennifer Goodman and husband Jay, Eric Janssen and wife Constance, Cynthia Vukmer and husband Brent, Katy Atkinson and husband Michael, Stephen Clark and Emily Clark; nine great-grandchildren, Perry, Seth, Hannah, Melea and Mollie Claire Kendall; Jacob Goodman; Jordan Thurman, and Robert and Robin Marie Janssen; three brothers, William F Robinson and wife Monzell of Falkville, Henry Robinson and wife Lynn of Collinsville and Dannie Robinson and wife Margaret of Decatur; and a sister-in-law, Helen Robinson of Cleveland.