2006
Robert H. Haynes, 81, a retired FBI agent, died after a heart attack May 6 at his home in Silver Spring.
Mr. Haynes worked 25 years for the FBI, starting as a special agent accountant in Pittsburgh and moving up to night supervisor
in the Washington field office, supervisor of general fugitive matters at FBI headquarters and an investigator on loan to the
House Appropriations Committee in the late 1950s.
In 1959, he became special agent supervisor assigned to the liaison section for government agencies and then was assigned
to the White House, serving under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford. He retired in 1975.
A native Washingtonian, Mr. Haynes graduated from McKinley Tech High School and served in the Army during World War II as
a military policeman, achieving the rank of second lieutenant when he was 19 years old. After the war, he studied accounting at
Southeastern University and graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Haynes was a member of St. Bernadette's Catholic Church in Silver Spring for 52 years and was also a member of the
Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. He enjoyed making sundials and was a member of the North American Sundial
Society.
Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Harriett A. Buckie Haynes of Silver Spring; four children, Christine A. Demetriou of Belle
Mead, N.J., Patricia B. Bergeron of Monrovia, in Frederick County, James A. Haynes of Silver Spring and Mary H. Johnson of New
London, Pa.; a sister, Ann Thompson of Hyattsville; and nine grandchildren.