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Wyoming Senate honors long‑time chief clerk Leif Haines with memorial resolution
Summary
The Wyoming Senate read and adopted a memorial recognizing Leif Charlotte Haines’s 23 years of service as committee secretary and chief clerk and identified funeral arrangements.
The Wyoming Senate read a memorial honoring Leif Charlotte Haines, who served more than two decades in the legislature, including as Senate chief clerk. The resolution, introduced on the floor, recounted Haines’s life as a German refugee who came to Cheyenne in 1959, her long career in the Senate, her service as chief clerk from 1987, and her family life with husband John Haines.
The memorial said Haines began work as a committee secretary before rising to chief clerk and that she served as chief clerk under multiple senate presidents. It described Haines as “a beacon of warmth and kindness” and noted her involvement in Rotary and recreational activities such as tennis. The resolution states Haines died the prior Friday and lists her funeral at Schroeder Funeral Home at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Senators on the floor took turns sharing personal memories. Senator Case recalled meeting the Haines family through Rotary and noted John Haines’s public service; Senator Keith and others read additional paragraphs and corrected an earlier draft to include biographical details such as her birth in Schweitznitz, Germany, on Jan. 10, 1943, and the family’s immigration to Cheyenne in 1959. The memorial as read closes by directing that a copy be transmitted to Haines’s family.
The memorial reading and tributes were procedural and ceremonial; there were no motions to approve legislative policy related to the memorial noted in the transcript.
The Senate’s floor reading and the resolution text provide formal legislative recognition and a record that the chamber extends sympathies to Haines’s family.
