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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of Lois Mae |
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Haynes of Waco, who passed away on February 26, 2011, at the age of |
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87; and |
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WHEREAS, Born in Minneapolis on July 27, 1923, to Clifford |
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and Lottie Neff, the former Lois Neff graduated as salutatorian |
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from her high school in 1941; she enrolled at the University of |
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Minnesota to study mathematics, but interrupted her formal |
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education during World War II to become a Curtiss-Wright Cadette; |
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receiving training at Purdue University, she then went to work at |
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the Curtiss-Wright plant in Columbus, Ohio, to serve as an |
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aeronautical engineering aide in the development of a dive bomber; |
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and |
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WHEREAS, After the war, she returned to the University of |
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Minnesota to complete the requirements for a bachelor's degree in |
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mathematics and to earn a master's degree in educational psychology |
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in 1947; she taught high school math for six years and met her |
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future husband, John Harrison Haynes, on an educator's tour of |
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Europe in 1953; the couple married and moved to East Longmeadow, |
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Massachusetts, where they raised two sons, Frederick and Robert; |
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and |
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WHEREAS, Mrs. Haynes shared 47 years with her husband until |
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his passing in 2000, and during that time they traveled |
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extensively, taking long family camping trips throughout the U.S. |
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and Canada and photographing every county courthouse in the |
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continental United States; the couple retired to Waco in 1983; a |
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lifelong lover of books, Mrs. Haynes served as the librarian for the |
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Providence Park collection in her retirement; she also enjoyed |
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playing bridge and was an avid stamp collector who belonged to the |
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Heart of Texas Stamp Club, the American Topical Association, and |
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state and national philatelic societies; and |
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WHEREAS, Lois Haynes lived a rich and purposeful life, and |
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although her absence is keenly felt, she has left those who held her |
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dear with a wealth of memories to forever treasure; now, therefore, |
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be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Lois Mae Haynes and |
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extend sincere sympathy to the members of her family: to her sons, |
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Frederick Haynes and his wife, Patricia, and Robert Haynes and his |
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wife, Marilyn; to her grandsons, Thomas, Stephen, and William; to |
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her sister, Jeanne Snell; to her nieces, Susan, Kathryn, and Nancy; |
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and to her other relatives and friends; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Lois Mae |
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Haynes. |
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Anderson of McLennan |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 1163 was unanimously adopted by a |
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rising vote of the House on April 14, 2011. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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