RAINS, Everett - 25 Oct 2000 - Whitley Co, KY
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:14:05 -0500
Submitted by: Bobbie Ivey-Lewallen (TNGirl@icx.net)

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FROM THE NEWS-JOURNAL, CORBIN, KY, 2 NOV 2000, PART 1

Everett Rains, 97, Watts Creek Road, Williamsburg, passed away Wednesday
afternoon, October 25, 2000 at the Baptist Regional Medical Center, Corbin.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Rachel Goldie Meadors Rains; a
daugher, Atha Mildred Gant; and a son, William Herschel Rains. He and Rachel
were married March 28, 1925.

He was saved and baptised into the Watson Chapel Baptist Church in
1950 and has been a Deacon of Watson Chapel Baptist Church for many years.
He started Rains Gas Company in 1961.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Debbie Bird and husband, E.S. of
Williamsburg and Mrs. Evelyn Allgood and husband, R.L. of Winston Salem,
North Carolina; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jean Geary of Williamsburg; 11
grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren;
and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn his passing.

Funeral services were held Saturday, October 28 at the Croley Funeral
Home Chapel with Rev. Doyle Lester officiating. Burial was in the Rains
Cemetery. Pallbearers were Joe Petrey, Roger Griffith, Rick Croley, Mack 
Lawson, Tom Maggard, Harold Taylor, Reed Brown, and James Hodge. Croley 
Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.