Jasper K. McLain

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Jasper K. McLain

From Ruth Walsh

First obit: Denison Herald, p.2 (photo accompanied article)
JASPER K. McLAIN
   Services for Jasper Keller McLain of 303 W. Texas St.,
79-year old farmer and carpenter who died Saturday at his
home, were held Monday in Center St. Church of Christ.
Roy Hazel of Gunter, Ed Doggett, elder of the church, and the
Rev. Thomas Beall, Baptist minister of Bonham, officiated.
Burial was in Cedarlawn Memorial Park directed by Waldo
Funeral Home.
Mr. McLain was born in Mertens, a son of Arthur Washington
McLain and Ella Vanila Keller McLain, and attended schools
in Bug Tussle near Dorchester.
He married Ola Aline Francis on Dec. 17, 1935 in Durant, and
following her death, married Marie McCurdy on Sept. 4, 1966
in Sherman.
Mr. McLain was a farmer in the Dorchester and Gunter areas
until he retired in 1966 because of poor health. He was a member of Center St.Church of Christ.
Surviving are his wife; daughters, Betty Taylor of Sherman and Peggy Maples of Gunter; stepsons, Douglas McCurdy of Carrollton and Scooter McCurdy of Cedar Park; step-
daughters, Louise Tidwell of Dallas and Nelda Ayres of
Austin; sisters, Thelma Reece of Stockton, Calif., Dorothy
Banks and Joyce Duckett, both of Denison and Helen Caylor
of Ravenna; four grandchildren, six stepgrandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
   Pallbearers were grandsons.

Second obit: Sherman Democrat, p. A-13
JASPER KELLER McLAIN
Sherman - Funeral for Jasper Keller McLain, 79, who died
Saturday at his home in Sherman, was held at 2 p.m. today in
Center St. Church of Christ.
Burial was in Cedarlawn Memorial Park under the direction of
Waldo Funeral Home.
McLain was born Feb. 17, 1908, in Mertens.   He married Ola
Aline Francis on Dec. 17, 1935. She died Feb. 22, 1966. He
later married Marie McCurdy Sept. 4, 1966, in Sherman. He
was a retired farmer and carpenter in Dorchester and Gunter
area. He retired in 1966. He attended Bug Tussle School in
Dorchester and was a member of the Center Street Church of
Christ in Sherman.
Surviving include his wife, Marie; two daughters, Betty Taylor
of Sherman and Peggy Maples of Gunter; stepsons, Douglas
McCurdy of Carrollton and Scooter McCurdy of Cedar Park;
two stepdaughters, Louise Tidwell of Dallas and Nelda Ayres
of Austin; four sisters, Thelma Reece of Stockton, Calif.,
Dorothy Banks and Joyce Duckett of Denison and Helen
Caylor of Ravenna; four grandchildren, six stepgrandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren.
(research note: Jasper Keller McLain was the grandson of
Nathaniel W. McLain and Mary Morris who were married
Tallapoosa Co., Alabama. Jasper's relatives include the
Hasten and Perry families who settled in Ellis and Fannin
Counties., TX.)

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