SACO-Ovidia
A. Haynes, 86, a homemaker, died Tuesday, September 15, at the
Phillips
County
Hospital
of natural causes.
Funeral services will be 11:00 A.M., Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the
Saco
Methodist
Church
with burial in the
Grandview
Cemetery
. Kirkwood Funeral Home of Malta is in charge of arrangements and
remembrances may be left for the family at www.kirkwoodfuneralhome.com.
Survivors include her grandson, Bill Haynes of Saco, granddaughters, Kim
Haynes of
Grand Forks
,
North Dakota
, Robyn Haynes of
Thief River Falls
,
Minnesota
; brother Mel Eklund of
Seattle
,
Wash.
, and several grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in
death by her parents, husband, Charles Haynes on Aug. 2, 1989; son,
Larry L. Haynes on July 2, 1987; brothers, Gunner, Bud and Wes
Eklund; sister, Violet Anderson.
Ovidia A. Eklund was born March 9, 1923 on the family farm near Forks,
Montana
. She was the daughter of Gustav Arthur and Olga Andres (
Anderson
) Eklund. She attended schools in Forks and Whitewater and graduated
from the
Saco
High School
. She married Charles L. Haynes on May 26, 1941 in Chinook. She was a
lifelong
Phillips
County
resident. She was a homemaker on the family farm and later in her life
was a play ground monitor at the
Saco
schools. She enjoyed her grandchildren, reading, visiting with neighbors
and friends, and baking bread.
