DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL
Daytona Beach, Florida
Thursday, January 4, 2001

FLOSSIE HAINES, FIRST WOMAN COMMISSIONER IN FLAGLER BEACH

FLAGLER BEACH - Flossie Haines of Sycamore Street, who overcame an unstable early childhood and became the city's first woman commissioner in 1937, died Sunday at Beverly Healthcare, Palm Coast. She was 86.

She was born in Bunnell at a time when State Road 100 was a one-lane brick road that led to the ocean shore, and the only permanent structure crossing the Intracoastal Waterway to Flagler Beach in her youth was a wooden drawbridge that she helped crank. She was a lifelong resident of Flagler County apart from two years she lived in Vero Beach caring for a sister.

Born Flora Matilda Bichard, she was given away with her two youngest siblings to the A.V. Wickline family after the death of their mother and one of their grandfathers. The rest of her family returned to their native Canada and she was raised in Flagler Beach by Wickline family, which included children George and Georgia. Wickline operated a grocery store and his wife was postmaster of the town for a time.

Haines was a charter member of Community Memorial Church and the Flagler Woman's Club. She enjoyed fishing and needlepoint.

Survivors include three daughters, Beverly Hawkins and Janet Newton, both of Flag­ler Beach, and Kathryn Anderson, Florida; a brother, Baron Allbritton, Tallahassee; three sisters, Amy Hollingworth, Canada, Ada Arnel, Missouri, and Bessie Minton, Fort Pierce; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Memorial donations may be made to the Community Memorial Church Memorial Fund, P.O. Box, 1512, Flagler Beach, FL 32136; or the Flagler Woman's Club Scholarship, 1524 S. Central Ave., Flagler Beach, FL 32136.

Craig, Palm Coast, is in charge.