Joyce Ladean Haynes

Funeral services for Joyce Ladean Haynes, 80 year-old Hydro resident, will be held Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10:00 A.M. in Hydro Christian Church, with Pastor Rick Dyson officiating. Burial will follow in Hydro Masonic Cemetery under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home.

On September 17, 1943, in the small town of Paducah, Texas, Joyce Ladean (Jordan) Haynes was born to Harley and Gladys (Mayberry) Jordan. Joyce was the fifth child of ten children born into the Jordan family.

At the age of 15, Joyce attended a dance in Paducah and met the love of her life, Jackie Marshell Haynes. A soldier home on leave, Jackie was immediately taken with the beautiful petite young woman, telling his friend that he was going to marry that girl. After a few short months of courtship, and several trips of Jackie hitchhiking back to Texas from Arkansas, the couple were married on August 22, 1959.

Their first son of three, Jackie Dean was born in 1960 while Jackie was stationed in Maryland. In 1962 their second son, Mitchell Lee was born, and their third son Terry Wayne would make his appearance in 1963 just one year and two months after Mitchell. Their only daughter, Vickie DeAnn was born in 1967, completing the family. As you can imagine the Haynes household was filled with chaos most days with four children under the age of eight, three of whom where boys, all within a three-and half-year age difference.

Joyce and Jackie and their young family made their homes on ranches in Texas and Oklahoma. While living in Henryetta, OK, Joyce took a job working at a sewing factory. Each morning Jackie would leave the house before dawn to start his day on the ranch. Joyce would wake the three boys, feed them breakfast, pack up DeAnn who was just an infant, and drop her off at the babysitter before heading to work. The boys who were then 8, 7, and 6 were given strict orders to finish their breakfast and listen for the school bus to honk when it pulled up to take them to school. All ran smoothly for a while until the three boys decided staying home and playing would be much more fun than going to school all day.

For almost a week when the bus would stop and honk the boys would hide and wait until it pulled away. After the bus was out of sight the boys would then spend the rest of the day playing in the barn. As far as the boys were concerned life was good and no one would ever find out their secret. Then Joyce received a call at work from the principal inquiring if the boys were ill since they had not been in school all week. One can only imagine the scene and the looks on Jackie, Mitchell, and Terry’s faces when they saw their mom walk into the barn! Knowing Joyce, I can guarantee those three delinquents had a hard time sitting down for a few days!

Joyce always a caretaker at heart, worked as a nurse’s assistant in Seminole, Clinton, and Weatherford for most of her career. But her favorite roles would always be wife, mom and later in life Mama. Joyce and Jackie were a team. They worked side by side on the ranches, and when Jackie began driving a truck, Joyce would at times go with him on long hauls, helping him drive and at times switching drivers while going down the road.

Having three boys and a daughter, with lots of friends, the Haynes household was the hub and sanctuary for those friends. It was not unusual for Joyce to have to step over sleeping bodies when getting up early for work. Joyce along with Jackie, fed, loved, and disciplined those extra children as if they were their own.

Wherever the family lived, Joyce always made their house a home, on the inside and outside. She loved planting flowers in the spring and took great pride in making sure her yard was mowed to perfection.

The love Joyce and Jackie shared was the kind of love found in storybooks. For almost 65 years, always hand in hand, they weathered the highs and lows that life can bring, before being called home, just one month apart.

Joyce is survived by sons: Jackie Haynes and wife Ladonna, Hydro, Mitchell Haynes and wife Ddee, Hydro, Terry Haynes Faye, OK, daughter Deanne Lucas and husband Mitch, Ardmore, OK. Grandchildren Rowdy Haynes, Melissa Stewart and husband Reno, Dual Haynes and wife Brianna, Kirsten Lucas, Brody Haynes and wife Taylor, Dancie Murray, Dylan Lucas, Tory Haynes, Ty Lucas, and Hattie Haynes. Great Grandchildren Kaizly Jackson, Maisie Haynes, Kallie Jackson, Owen Stewart, Ridge Haynes, Grayson Doback, River Haynes, Maverick Haynes, Beckett Murray, Kodi Stewart, Kylo Haynes, Suede Haynes, Sunny Haynes and baby boy Haynes coming soon.

Sisters Linda Jordan Kinney and Jean Harvey. Sister-in-law Becky Goodwin and husband Sonny, and Brother-in-law Ray Lynn Haynes. Plus, many nieces and nephews and too many friends to count.

She was preceded in death by her husband Jackie Haynes, parents Harley and Gladys Jordan, siblings; Landson Jordan, JoAnn Nolan, Leon Jordan, Terry Jordan, Wade Jordan, Mauren Rogers, infant sisters Marybeth and Jane, and granddaughter Kamber Lucas-Doback.