Everett Roy “Junior” Haney, Jr., of Louisa died on Friday, August 21, 2026, at Pleasant View Farm, his home in Louisa County. Junior was outside working when he died, clearing and burning brush. Ninety-three years, eight months and twenty-five days old — which is how he would have told you himself.

Born November 27, 1932, at Stanardsville in Greene County, the son of Everette Roy Haney, Sr., and Mary Ella Brill, Junior was one of seven children, and carrying his father’s name is how he came by the name everyone used for the next ninety-three years. On July 7, 1957, at twenty-four, Junior was received into full membership of Westover Methodist Church in Ruckersville.

Junior attended William Monroe High School in Stanardsville, then went to work on his father’s farm. In March 1953 the draft took Junior into the United States Army. Trained as a supply handler at the Quartermaster School, he served with the 563rd Quartermaster Company and was honorably discharged at Fort Lee in March 1955 as a Private First Class, having earned the National Defense Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.

Junior’s working life was spent on machinery. From 1955 to 1957 he was in maintenance and repair at the Allis-Chalmers tractor and equipment dealership at Proffit, and from 1957 to 1959 at Wright’s Wrecking Yard in Charlottesville. In 1959 he went to the telephone company — Virginia Telephone & Telegraph, and later Central Telephone Company of Virginia — starting as a switchman, the man who kept the central office equipment running, and rising to equipment supervisor and then customer service staff coordinator. He was called the best switchman in the state by a supervisor not much given to compliments. He left in 1980, at forty-seven, to farm full time.

On December 31, 1977, in Greene County, Junior married Mary Estes. They were happily married for forty-eight joyous years. They were rarely far apart. Mary was working by his side the day he died.

For eleven years Junior farmed his father’s place in Greene County and rented ground besides. In December 1991, he and Mary bought Pleasant View Farm — a hundred and eighty-one acres on Poindexter Road, in the Green Springs National Historic Landmark District — and worked it for thirty-five years, raising cattle and making hay. Junior developed a penchant for draft horses – he purchased four Percherons over the years. In 2001, Jake and Dan were bought from Jacob Zook, an Amish breeder in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Out of that came lasting friendships with Jacob and Sadie Zook and with Mose and Marie Stoltzfus. Lexie and Fanny joined the farm in 2007. Junior proudly took his horses to county fairs and heritage festivals across central Virginia so that children could stand beside the tall working team.

Junior competed in the two-man crosscut saw at the county fair into this year, at ninety-three, often with Mary at the other end of the saw. In 2025 he donated his saw to the Louisa County Fair for the competition, and Junior sawed with it again in August 2026, walking off with first place prize.

Much of Junior’s life went to agriculture and to young people. In Greene County he belonged to the Young Farmers, served as president and board member of the county Farm Bureau, was elected a director of the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District, and supported the county fair and 4-H. In Louisa County Junior was president of the Young Farmers, a board member and supporter of the Louisa County Agricultural Fair, and a supporter of 4-H. Orange County had his support for 4-H as well, and he was a contributor to the Belgian draft horse pulling competition at its fair. In Fluvanna County he served as a director of Old Farm Day at Pleasant Grove Park in Palmyra. For a time Junior served as president of the Old Dominion Draft Horse and Mule Association.

Junior’s parents, a brother and a sister preceded him in death.

Survivors include his wife of forty-eight years, Mary Haney of Louisa; his nieces Karen Knight and her husband Bobby, and Marilyn Garth and her husband Horace; his cousins Betty Woodward, Barbara Haney, George Haney, Jackie Haney Morris, Pete Haney, Debbie Haney, Ceresa Haney and her husband Richard Williams, Chuck Haney and his wife Donna, Ken Henshaw, and Shelby Mason; his friends Pete “Petey” Perkins and his wife Brenda, Ben Richardson, Melinda McCall and her daughter Lucy, and Christina Richardson, all of Louisa County, and Jacob and Sadie Zook and Mose and Marie Stoltzfus of Gordonville, Pennsylvania; a large extended Haney family across Greene and Louisa counties; and his beloved beagle, Tip.

There will be no funeral service. A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, September 13, 2026, at two o’clock in the afternoon, at 6615 Poindexter Road, Louisa. Dress is casual. Junior’s ashes will be interred privately in the cemetery at Westover United Methodist Church in Ruckersville — the church he joined as a young man, a few yards from his great-grandfather, Corporal Bazil Haney of the 7th Virginia Infantry, who died in the year Junior was born.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the 4-H programs Junior supported: Louisa County 4-H, c/o Virginia Cooperative Extension, P.O. Box 399, Louisa, VA 23093-0399; or Orange County 4-H, c/o Virginia Cooperative Extension, 127 Belleview Avenue, Orange, VA 22960.

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