The Rev. Argola “Golie” Haynes – a retired priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles and former teacher in Pasadena city schools – died March 29 at age 84.
Survivors include her daughter, Tina Ayres; two grandchildren; and two sisters, Anna Parker and Alma Stokes who is a longtime parishioner of All Saints Church in Pasadena, where a memorial service will be held on Friday, April 11, at 11 a.m. Bishop John Harvey Taylor will preside.
A daughter of an ordained pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Haynes was born in 1940 in San Bernardino, Calif. She became a teacher in the Pasadena Unified School District from which she retired in 1995 after a 30-year career serving students in elementary grades.
Answering a call to ordained ministry, Haynes completed a master of divinity degree in 1998 at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley, Calif.
Haynes was ordained to the transitional diaconate in 1998 by Bishop Suffragan Chester L. Talton and to the priesthood in 1999 by Bishop Frederick H. Borsch at St. Bede’s Church, Los Angeles, where she served as assistant priest until 2007. Thereafter, Haynes was priest-in-charge at Christ the Good Shepherd Church, Los Angeles from 2008 to 2010, having assisted at L.A.’s Church of the Advent in 2000-2001.
After retiring from full-time ministry in 2012, Haynes remained active as a supply priest around the diocese, sharing regularly in services at St. Barnabas, Pasadena, and making pastoral visits each week to members of All Saints, Pasadena.