Biography

Married name: Leola Haynes Sanderson.

Leola Haynes was born in 1888 and attended the New England Conservatory of Music in the early nineteen hundreds. Her father owned the Haynes Flute Company, which still exists (as of 2018) in Boston, Massachusetts. She was about twenty-three when she joined the chautauqua tour.

She played flute in the Colonial Theater of Boston for dramas and plays of the day. She also played for the Canadian Theater Company in 1920-1922. She played flute with Ethel Leginska's Boston Women's Symphony Orchestra, 1926-1930. Unfortunately this orchestra was short-lived due to the depression and impending war.

Leola played in local ensembles and orchestras around the Boston area. In 1931 she performed with the Park Avenue Orchestra with her daughter Lamia, who was seventeen years old at the time.

At some point Leola gave up the flute and became a cashier with the Women's Industrial Union of Boston. Leola Haynes Sanderson died in 1983 at the age of ninety-five.

(Taken from a biographical sketch written by her granddaughter Trudy Dolgin.)

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