Florence (Joeckel) Haynes (1921)

HARRIS, HAYNES, JOECKEL, PARKER, WILKINSON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 2/22/2008 at 15:20:37

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 16, 1921

MRS. FLORENCE JOECKEL-HAYNES Dies of Fractured Skull

Telegrams to Henry Joeckel and Phil R. Wilkinson came Tuesday afternoon from Camp Meade, Md., telling of the death of Mrs. Florence Joeckel-Haynes on Feb. 14, 1921. The messages contained the facts that she had been hit by an auto at four o'clock on Feb. 14, had a fractured skull and was unconscious until her death, five hours later. No further word has been received yet.

Mrs. Haynes was a Winterset girl, about twenty-two years of age, who was the younger daughter of Henry Joeckel, and granddaughter of Judge and Mrs. A. W. Wilkinson, with whom she lived for many years.

Mrs. Haynes was in New York and Washington with her mother, Mrs. Maude Parker, during the war, and was married last June to Lieut. Allen Haynes, stationed at Camp Meade, Md., where she has since resided.

This tragic death has brought much sadness to the friends of Mrs. Haynes who loved her deeply and will mourn her early passing.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 23, 1921
Page 1

Death of MRS. FLORENCE HAYNES

Details regarding the death of Mrs. Allen F. Haynes at Camp Meade, Md., were reported in a letter written to her grandparents, Judge and Mrs. A. W. Wilkinson, by her mother, Mrs. Maude Parker.

Mrs. Haynes and her sister, Mrs. Lee Harris, on Monday afternoon, Feb. 14th, were walking together, when a speeding truck struck Mrs. Haynes, throwing her a distance of thirty feet, fracturing her skull; also crushing and breaking one leg.

A specialist from Baltimore was rushed to take the case, his decision being that should she rally sufficiently to undergo an operation, she might be saved. However, she never rallied, although her condition seemed much better just before death came. She lived from four o'clock on Monday afternoon until nine o'clock Tuesday morning, Feb. 15th. Death was directly due to the failure of her heart to rally from the great shock.

Mrs. Haynes' mother was in Cincinnati at the time, as she was holding a position in Camp Thomas, near that city. She has resigned her work and will remain temporarily with Lieut. Haynes at Camp Meade.

Mrs. Haynes was laid to rest on Wednesday of last week besides Lieut. Haynes' mother, in the lovely cemetery at Arlington, in the plot reserved for the families of army officers.

The floral offerings were numberless and very beautiful. Mrs. Haynes, a young woman of charm and sweetness, was a great favorite in Camp Meade and her death came as a real sorrow to friends there, as it did to her friends here.

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