YE OLDE HAYNES PHOTOS...
FROM THE ALBUM OF
JOHN DONAHE

My Mother's first job was at a cigar factory in Owensboro, KY, where she made cigars by rolling them by hand - at or before age 16. In 1928 she and her family moved from Owensboro to Chicago. Her first job in Chicago was at a Kresge Five and Ten Cents store as a waitress in the lunch counter.

She eventually met my father, Merrils, and were married August 21, 1937 in Chicago, where my sister Pat and I were born. In 1950 our family and my Grandmother Haynes, who had been living with us, moved to Sweet Home, Oregon. We lived there a little less than a year and then moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. At that time my grandmother moved back to Owensboro, KY, where she lived with my Aunt Chelsea until she died in 1956.

We lived in St. Paul until 1957, when my parents and sister moved back to Chicago. (When we moved from Chicago, friends and neighbors told us that once you have lived in Chicago, and move away, you will eventually return. So, I guess they fulfilled that prophecy.) After my father retired in 1976, they went back to Minnesota for a couple years, and then moved to Sebring, Florida where my father died in 1981.

About 3 years after my father's death, my mother moved back to Chicago where she remained until her death in 1999. I recall her saying "My Lord, I hate traveling, and yet I've moved all over the country".