Obituaries:  Mrs. Addie S. Rains, Sabine Parish       R-520
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 26, 1961
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Addie S. Rains

  Funeral services for Mrs. Addie Strickland Rains, age 76, who
passed away at a hospital in Arlington, Calif., May 6, after a
long illness, were conducted at Spring Ridge Baptist Church near
Pleasant Hill, La., Friday, May 13, with Rev. Willie Prothro, and
Rev. Ada Bonds officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery,
under the direction of Drewett Funeral Home of Mansfield.

  Mrs. Rains was a native of Sabine Parish, having been reared
near Belmont, La. She moved to Calif. To be with her daughter,
Mrs. Bevie Harvey, after the death of her late husband, Marshall
Rains, in 1925.

  Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Bevie Harvey, and Mrs. Ruby
Rains of Arlington, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Hallie
Blankenship of Pleasant Hill, La., Mrs. Willie Blankenship,
Oxford, La., Mrs. Hettie Willis of Calif.; two brothers, Tom, and
Herbert of Converse.