Hairdresser ran beauty shop for more than four decades
SAINT JOHN — Local hairdresser
Florence A. Haynes was a compassionate, hard-working woman who “valued what she took care of, and took care of what she valued," says her only daughter. And what Haynes valued most, says Myrna Reid, was her family and friends.” (Mom) had a deep love and encouragement and steadfast devotion to her family," she said Wednesday. "She gave us a good work ethic, a strong sense of honesty and loyalty. She said the world doesn’t owe you living, you work hard for it. “Her motto was: ‘Take care of what you have, you may never get another.’” As for the value she placed on friendships, the sign on the door of her home – “To have a friend, be a friend” – pretty well said it all. Haynes, who moved from the Loch Lomond Villa apartments to her daughter’s home following a fall six months ago, died at the Saint John Regional Hospital on Aug. 17. She was 84.
For more than four decades, she owned and operated
Flo’s Beauty Shop, first on Wright and Pitt streets in Saint John and later, in Hampton, where she lived from 1976 until moving back to the city in 1996. She learned her trade while working at a salon on Princess Street.
The first baby born at the now-closed hospital in Berwick, N.S., on Oct. 23, 1923, she was one of three children – two boys and girl – of the late James Edward and Mildred Vivian (Skinner) White, who owned a farm in nearby Cambridge.
Besides her daughter, her survivors include one son, Eric Haynes of Purcells Cove, Halifax, N.S.; one sister, Marion Light and one brother, Gordon Magee, both of Clementsport, N.S.; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Haynes grew up happy on the farm, said Reid. There were plenty of chores to go around, from churning butter to gathering eggs to feeding chickens, but also plenty of garden-fresh food and love. "The house was always open to children," said Reid, including those from the Children’s Aid Society, headed up by her great-uncle.
The farm’s orchard left her with a love of apple blossoms that endured. The orchard was also where she met the late F. Stewart Haynes, a hired hand whom she married. When he moved the family to Saint John in 1952 to take employment on the Saint John-Digby ferry
Princess Helene, she took up hairdressing. After their children were grown, the couple divorced.
Her great joys in life included a love of bluegrass and folk music, history, genealogy, travel, archeology, birding, camping and exploring the country roads with her trusty maps as a guide. She enjoyed telling stories about the places she had visited, such as Stonehenge in England, and passed her love of reading and history – and her great work ethic – on to her children. When her grandchildren were younger, she would take them camping with her to places such as the Pine Cone Campground near Sussex
— The Telegraph Journal, Sept. 4th, 2008.
1923 - 2008 (84 years)
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