Services will be at noon Thursday at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Millington with burial in the church cemetery. Jefferson Mortuary in Millington has charge.
He was a graduate of Woodstock High, Lane College and the University of Memphis. He was listed in Who's Who Among Educators. He was Covington (Tenn.) Teacher of Year, first director of Title 3 Practical Arts Project and the first black recipient of Covington's OYE Award.
Mr. Haynes, the husband of Mary Elizabeth Battles Haynes, also leaves two sons, Duane Orlando Battles and Clayton Leonardo Haynes; his mother, Olivia Pitts Haynes of Millington; two sisters, Florida Haynes Thomas of Memphis and Victoria Haynes Johnson of Evinston, Fla., and three brothers, Maurice Haynes of Chicago, Lawrence Taylor Haynes Jr. of Memphis and James Leroy Haynes of St. Paul, Minn
Commercial Appeal, The (Wednesday, January 15, 1997) , obit for CLAYTON ROOSEVELT HAYNES, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/100837A874808F95-100837A874808F95 : accessed 10 June 2020)
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Services will be at noon Thursday at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Millington with burial in the church cemetery. Jefferson Mortuary in Millington has charge.
He was a graduate of Woodstock High, Lane College and the University of Memphis. He was listed in Who's Who Among Educators. He was Covington (Tenn.) Teacher of Year, first director of Title 3 Practical Arts Project and the first black recipient of Covington's OYE Award.
Mr. Haynes, the husband of Mary Elizabeth Battles Haynes, also leaves two sons, Duane Orlando Battles and Clayton Leonardo Haynes; his mother, Olivia Pitts Haynes of Millington; two sisters, Florida Haynes Thomas of Memphis and Victoria Haynes Johnson of Evinston, Fla., and three brothers, Maurice Haynes of Chicago, Lawrence Taylor Haynes Jr. of Memphis and James Leroy Haynes of St. Paul, Minn
Commercial Appeal, The (Wednesday, January 15, 1997) , obit for CLAYTON ROOSEVELT HAYNES, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/100837A874808F95-100837A874808F95 : accessed 10 June 2020)
Contributor: Moneyroe (48073767)
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