Faith Irene Greenough-Haynes

Feb 11, 1939 -

Sep 25, 2020

Faith I. Haynes, beloved mother, grandmother, sister and daughter, passed away after a brief battle with cancer on Sept. 25, 2020. She was 81. She was born on Feb. 11, 1939, to Helen (McCoy) and Charles Petty in Great Falls, Mont. As a youngster, she was involved with Campfire Girls and playing the clarinet in her high school marching band. While working at the Big Mountain Ski Resort in Whitefish, Mont., she met Theodore Hansen, and they married in 1961. While raising three young children, Faith earned her teaching degree at the University of Montana, and in the first of many journeys she moved to Alaska in 1973.

Faith's marriage to Frank Greenough in 1977 began a new, amazing chapter of her life, one filled with adventure and a passion for travel that took her around the globe experiencing new cultures and making lifelong friends. Her passion to teach and travel culminated in a 2-year teaching mission in Thailand.

Following Frank's passing 2005, she enjoyed a brief marriage to Jim Haynes who passed away in 2011. She was blessed to find a true love and companionship in the last years of her life with Don Knowles, whom she married in 2012. Faith and Don enjoyed 8 sweet, wonderful years of marriage.

Her spirituality was the guiding force throughout her life and was enriched by the many ways she dedicated her time to the church, like the choir and the handbell group. She took great pleasure in the friendships within her small group bible study, H2H, and the many wonderful people she worked with in the Sequim Guild.

Her greatest love and joy came from her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She will be dearly missed by her daughters, Krista Whitford and Kara Pitt of Dennis, Mass.; her son, Scott Hansen of Anchorage, Alaska; her brother, Larry Petty of Billings, Mont.; and her many beloved grandchildren and great-grandchildren.