BERLIN — Founder and pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship Church in Berlin, and more recently a mayoral candidate who was challenging incumbent Paul Grenier, Robert Haynes died last Wednesday of COVID-19.
Just before he was put on a ventilator at Concord Hospital about two weeks ago, Pastor Rob, 54, told an ICU nurse he knew how hard they had worked to try and save his life.
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