Donna Faye Haynes

Dr. Donna Faye Haynes, 54, transitioned to her heavenly home on October 20, 2014 after a valiant battle with illness. Her devotion to her family and her firm belief in God supported both her and all those who loved her in her struggle and ultimately gives them peace. Donna was born to Dr. Harvey and the late Billie Faye Gray Haynes, a respected educator and a blessed homemaker respectively, in Asheville, NC on August 29, 1960. She was immersed in the Christian community that would be her lifelong support from an early age. She was a Lay Servant for the United Methodist Church, was a Lay Leader educator who taught classes in prayer, taught Sunday School, played the keyboard, and shared her beautiful high soprano voice in the choir and for worship. She too was a gifted educator, and an advanced practice nurse with an extraordinary ability to bring healing to mind, body, and souls of those she touched. She graduated from AB Tech, Mountain Area Health Education Center, Clemson University, and held a doctorate in Natural Healing. Donna was blessed in her life with a son, Gray Lee Haynes, a true blessing to his mother, his family, and to a large village of people that are his extended family. She taught him to love God, love family and friends, and love a good trout stream. He taught many what it really means to live in village. Through her talents, Donna touched many lives, whether in private practice, teaching nursing students at Greenville Tec, or Clemson University. Her most cherished memories were of taking care of medically underserved people in the upstate of South Carolina, leading mobile operations until her retirement. Her exceptional medical care was full of people that cared deeply. The Greenville Hospital System Oncology floor were her second family who took extra effort to make her life comfortable. Dr. Deborah Meadows, Dr. Lucy Davis, and Dr. Kathy Christman gave her hope, quality of life, and for their efforts we are extremely grateful. Donna loved to laugh, and hated to cry. She loved her family, and thought her brothers were her world. She was kind, and always had time to help anyone, even offering to pray for others, when she no longer had the strength to physically help. She is dearly missed by her loved ones, and all those who celebrate the fact that she touched their lives. We rejoice that she is at peace with her creator. She is survived by her son Gray Lee Haynes, her father Harvey Haynes, her brothers Keith Gray Haynes, and Scott Lee Haynes. She was preceded in death by her grandparents O.C. and Thelma Gray, and Dan and Lou Haynes. Visitation will be Thursday from 2 to 4 PM at Dillard Funeral Home in Pickens, SC with a Celebration of her life and memorial service following in the funeral home chapel at 4 PM. The Porter’s Chapel United Methodist Church Reverend Dick Waldrep will officiate the service. The family gratefully requests any memorials be sent to the Joseph F. Sullivan Center to establish a fund in her honor to care for the medically underserved in the community that she so passionately cared about. Dillard Funeral Home, Pickens