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- The Beckley Register-Herald, Online Edition, Monday, 2 May 2005
RAINELLE - L. M. "Squire" Haynes, 88, of Rainelle, died Saturday, April 30, 2005, at his home, following a long illness.
Squire was born Jan. 9, 1917, on the family farm atop Little Sewell Mountain. He was the son of the late Levi Caperton Haynes and Anna Bell (Nee) Andrews Haynes.
Squire graduated from the Rainelle High School Class of 1934. After graduation, he assisted in operation of the family farm until joining the U.S. Navy during World War II. He attended radar school, then served aboard a destroyer in the Atlantic Fleet from 1942 through 1946.
After Squire was discharged from the Navy, he went to work at his brother James' radio, television and airconditioning sales, retail and repair business at Rainelle. He and his brother, James (Jim), founded a television cable company, which he operated for 23 years. Theirs was only the second such company in the world when they began it.
He earned his pilot's license in November 1947 by attending flight training at the former Black's unpaved airstrip at Crawley. During 1960 into mid-1963, Squire worked as the weekend manager of the grass strip, Pence Springs Airport, on behalf of the owner, Colonel John Gwinn. Upon leaving Pence Springs, Squire created a 3,500 foot airstrip (the longest grass runway in West Virginia) along a ridge-line pasture field for his own Cessna 172 Sky Hawk airplane. This airstrip is now known as the Rainelle Airport. During 1965, he constructed the building that evolved into the combination hanger and popular fly-in restaurant as it exists today. The restaurant began operation in 1988 and became an immediate favorite of many in-state pilots and local non-flying patrons. Squire was the senior officer of Rainelle Airpark, Inc., which owns and administers the Rainelle Airport.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Myrtle Haynes Buster; and six brothers, George, Dewey, Lacy, William, Richard and Arthur Jim Haynes.
Survivors include a sister, Agnes D. Haynes of Rainelle; three nephews, Richard Haynes of Piqua, Ohio, George Haynes of Charleston, and William Haynes of Cross Lanes; five nieces, Glenna Deitz of Summersville, Barbara Young, Ruth Melton, and Beth Plants, all of Charleston, and Mary Mason of Lumberton, N.C. He will be sadly missed by a host of friends.
Service will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Wallace and Wallace Chapel in Rainelle, with Pastor Allen Johnson officiating. Burial will follow at the End of the Trail Cemetery in Clintonville.
Friends may call 7 until 9 p.m. today at the funeral chapel.
Arrangements by Wallace and Wallace, Inc. of Rainelle.
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d. 1962 (Age 87 years)