Helen Laveda Haynes

Helen Laveda Haynes, 88 of Pendleton and formerly of Union, died Aug. 24 at a care center. The funeral will begin at 2 p.m. Friday at Loveland Funeral Chapel, 1508 Fourth Street, La Grande.

Mrs. Haynes was born Jan. 11, 1917, to Joseph B. and Jennie E. Cummins Cooley in Redfield, Iowa. She married John H. Haynes, and spent many years in Alaska working for the Coast Guard. She enjoyed painting, sewing, gardening, hunting and collecting books, and won several awards for canning, baking and poultry at county and state fairs. She had a great love for the mountains and for hummingbirds.

Survivors include a daughter, Barb J. Bertels of Pendleton; two grandchildren; a brother, Joseph R. Cooley of Junction City; two great-grandchildren other relative. Her husband and a brother Carroll C.W. Cooley, both died earlier.