World War I; Private U.S. Army
Services for Charles Airon McClain, 87, of Spur will be at 2 p.m. today at the Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Galloup, pastor, and the Rev. Derrell Monday, pastor of the Rotal First Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Red Mud Cemetery in Spur under the direction of Campbell Funeral Home of Spur.
He died at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Fisher County Nursing Home in Rotan after a brief illness.
Born March 19, 1896, in Kent County, he lived in Kent and Dickens Counties all of his life. He married Jessie Smith on June 1, 1918, in Kent County, she died February 23, 1947. He married Janetta Howerton on December 31, 1949 in Kent County. He was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church. He was a farmer and a veteran of World War I. He was preceeded in death by one son, Eldon in 1976.
Survivors include his wife, Nettie of Spur; a daughter, Mrs. A.D. (Sylvia) Herring of Grand Prairie, two sons, J.A. of Rotal and Johnny of Kilgore; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Bill (Sarah) Theriac of Amherst and Mrs. Billy (Geraldine) Cock of Grand Prairie; a stepson Willie Howerton of Spur; nine grandchildren; 22 great grandchildren; and two great great grandchildren.
©The Texas Spur, February 1984
From the scrapbooks of Thelma Kimmel Scott
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