Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Friday, June 29, 2007

Vida M. Haynes

A homemaker and a resident of Baker, she died at 2:25 a.m. Thursday, June 28, 2007, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center-Mid City. She was 69, born Jan. 12, 1938, in Baton Rouge.

Visiting at Baker Funeral Home, Baker, on Friday, June 29, from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on Saturday after 9 a.m. Religious service at the funeral home chapel at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, conducted by the Rev. Wayne Myers. Interment in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Survived by her husband, Joseph M. “Tank Car” Haynes; nephews, Jason and Jeremy Graphia, Casey and Levey Koon, Robert Hall Jr. and Brandon Meaulance; granddaughter, Alexis M. Haynes; stepgrandchildren, Tamra and Michael Todd; three sons, John M. Haynes of Baker, David Haynes and wife Sandra of Zachary, and James Haynes and girlfriend Sonya Stevens of Baker; two sisters, Jeanne Delooze and husband Ken of Maurepas and Pam Meaulance of Baton Rouge; brother, John H. Meaulance Jr., French Settlement; sister-in-law, Harriett Hall, Frierson; brother-in-law, Robert Hall, Frierson; and nieces, Deshea Kozyak, Metairie, Tammy Warden, Austin, and Terry Boston, Tanya Jordon and Brenda Crooks, all of Stonewall.

Preceded in death by her parents, John and Elrie Meaulance; father-in-law, Willie “Bill” Haynes; and mother-in-law, Aline R. Haynes.

Pallbearers will be Jason and Jeremy Graphia, Brandon Meaulance, Casey and Levey Koon and James Haynes.

Special thanks to Dr. Herchel Dean, Dr. Joseph Cefalu, Dr. William H. Hines, Dr. John Godke, Dr. Ashwin Sura, Dr. Rajas Rhushan and their staffs. Thanks also to United Health Care, home care nurse Patricia Mauldin and the staff of the ICU at Baton Rouge General Medical Center-Mid City.

She was a member of Bethel Primitive Baptist Church.