A wake service will be held Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from 6:00 – 7:00 P.M. at the Oglethorpe Funeral Chapel, Inc., 607 Kaigler Street, Oglethorpe, Georgia
The funeral service will be conducted at 11:00 A.M., Wednesday morning, April 8, 2015 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1908 Dozier Road, Ellaville, Georgia. Reverend William Laster, pastor, will officiate. Interment will follow in the Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery.
Mattie Belle Haynes was born January 30, 1926 in Columbus, Chattahoochee County, Georgia to the late John D. Gardner and the late Annie Lee Gardner Thornton. Her husband, Dallas Haynes, three sons, Robert L. McIntosh, Jerry Haynes, and Ernest Haynes, preceded her in death.
She was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church under the leadership of her beloved Pastor, William Laster.
She leaves to cherish her memories: five children, Carol Wells and David McIntosh, both of Columbus, Georgia, Mary Haynes Storey (Milton) and Martha Haynes Shelton, all of Ellaville, Georgia and Gloria Haynes Wright, Woodstock, Georgia; two daughters-in-law, Barbara Haynes, Ellaville, Georgia and Marsha McIntosh, Clayton, North Carolina; brothers/sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Haynes and James Haynes (Cora Lee), all of Ellaville, Georgia, Sallie Haynes, Ethel Haynes, Mildred Gordon and Harry Haynes (Mattie), all of Atlanta, Georgia, Mattie Lee, Decatur, Georgia, Mary Williams (Lue Ellen) Covington, Georgia and Stewart McIntosh (Carrie), Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a beloved son whom she helped to rear, Gregory Oliver (Wanda), Oglethorpe, Georgia; and a host of grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.