Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....McClain, John Dudley Sr. October 1959
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"The Camilla Enterprise" dated 5 Nov 1959

Obituary of John Dudley McClain as written on page 3 of "The Camilla 
Enterprise" dated 5 Nov 1959.  Camilla, Georgia.   
Funeral services for John Dudley McClain, Sr., age 61, of Pelham, were held 
Sunday afternoon, November 1, at 2:30 o'clock at Hand Memorial Methodist Church 
in Pelham with the Rev. Chester Gilbert, pastor, officiating.  Interment 
followed in the Pelham Cemetery with Braswell Funeral Home of Pelham in charge 
of funeral arrangements.  Active pallbearers wer Lewis Crosby, Ashley Huey, 
Winton Powell, Charlie Pollock, Ernest Howze, John Collins, Jr.  An honorary 
escort was formed by Fletcher Taylor, Ray Kelly, Roy Smith, Leland Cooper, L. 
J. Powell, Bert Rumble, Leon Gandy, Dr. A. C. Harris, Hubert Tucker, K. H. 
Stough, M. W. Turner, Ernest Williams, Dr. W. C. Arwood, J. C. Calhoun, Robert 
Chambers, J. B. Davis, Dalton Gandy, A. B. Garrard, M. A. Hancock, L. D. Hand, 
O. S. Harris, N. J. Hodges, H. J. Jennings, H. L. McElvey, Gilbert Lewis and 
Henry Jones.  Mr McClain died Friday after a short illness.  He was married to 
the former Miss Alma Rackley of Statesboro, and was the son of the late Dr. 
John Wyatt and Lula deGraffenreid McClain.  He was a member of the board of 
stewards of Hand Memorial Methodist Church and a member of the American 
Legion.  He was rural mail carrier.  Survivors besides his wife include a son, 
John D. McClain, Jr., USAF, Hawaii; three daughters, Mrs. Robert C. White of 
New Hartford, N. Y., Miss Louise McClain of Dublin and Miss Miriam McClain of 
Statesboro and Pelham; two brothers, Frank McClain of Pelham and Charlie Gordon 
of Guntersville, Ala; four sisters, Mrs. Spencer Harrison of Pelham, Mrs. F. D. 
Vallely and Miss Carolyn McClain, both of Atlanta, and Capt. Elizabeth McClain 
of Ft. Eustis, Va.; and two grandchildren.



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