Glenda Joyce Haynes' Obituary
McLEAN Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, December 26, 2013 at First United Methodist Church in McLean with the Rev. Thacker Haynes, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in the Haynes Family Cemetery on the Denworth Line Camp ranch north of McLean. Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of McLean. Joyce was born July 13, 1930, in McLean to Ruel and Gladys Smith. She graduated from McLean High School in 1947, received a degree from Colorado Women’s College in Denver and attended West Texas State College. She married John Morse Haynes on Jan. 22, 1950, at First Baptist Church in McLean, and they started a family of four boys and a girl. She was a homemaker during Johnny and Joyce’s 63 years of marriage and also did anything that was needed on the ranch, including keeping the books, paying bills and cooking for the cowboys at brandings each year. Joyce was the organist at the McLean Methodist Church for many years and also played the piano for children’s Sunday School classes, among other acts of service. Joyce and Johnny were leaders of the Methodist Youth Fellowship, and in later years, Joyce was a member of the Wesley class, of which Johnny is the teacher. Her music ability included playing the accordion for local events as a young woman. In addition to church work, Joyce served in many community activities such as heading the McLean Ex-Students Association and playing the piano at Lions Club meetings. Her ability to tend to the business side of the ranch was a natural extension of her childhood, when she rode with her father, who was in the oil business, to drilling sites. She was known for her chocolate pie and apricot fried pies, and neighboring cowboys especially liked her hot rolls. For several years, she and her family delivered chocolate and pecan pies to friends at Christmas time. She also made plum jelly and chow-chow. Joyce attended and hosted bridge club regularly until her hospitalization. She and Johnny had many friends with whom they played bridge, and later they spent many leisure hours playing cards and games with their family. She played basketball at McLean High School and later joined the family in playing tennis, basketball, ping-pong and golf. She and Johnny traveled many miles to watch their children and grandchildren in multiple sports, and she often was busy at those games videoing and keeping basketball and softball statistics. She also watched her husband play baseball and golf and run in long-distance races. They had adventures together traveling to their daughter’s college basketball games from Los Angeles to Madison Square Garden and following Nancy Lopez on the professional golf tour. Joyce and Johnny’s home was known as a gathering place for friends and family to talk on the kitchen table benches and as a place for fun. She was preceded in death by her parents and by her grandson, David Johnson. Survivors include her husband, John Morse Haynes of McLean; four sons: Mike Haynes of Amarillo and his wife, Kathy; David Haynes of McLean and his wife, Ginger; Morse Haynes of Monahans; and Sam Haynes of Pampa and his wife, Jan; a daughter, Sheri Lee Haynes of McLean; her brother, Carey Don Smith of Roswell, N.M., and his wife, Cheryl; and grandchildren Darren Johnson of Canyon; John Ruel Haynes of McLean; Sheri Ann Haynes and her husband, Tyler, of McLean; Ashton and Heath Haynes of Lubbock; Madison Haynes of Monahans; and Maria and Sara Jo Haynes of McLean. The family suggests memorials to First United Methodist Church in McLean, 219 Gray St., McLean, Texas 79057.
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