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Oklahoma
   
   Forrest Robert McClain
   LEEDEY, Okla. - Forrest Robert McClain, 76, died Wednesday, Jan. 26,
   2000.
   
   Services will be at 4 p.m. today in St. Matthews Catholic Church at
   Elk City. Burial will be in Rhea Cemetery by Shaw Funeral Home.
   
   Mr. McClain was born near Leedey, where he attended schools. He served
   with the Army Air Corps during World War II and was a prisoner of war
   for six months. He returned to Stillwater and graduated from Oklahoma
   A&M University in 1947. After teaching and serving as cattle judging
   coach at the University of Tennessee, he was the Extension Beef
   Specialist at Louisiana State University. Later, he served as the
   field representative for the southeastern United States for the
   American Hereford Association.
   
   From 1956 until 1960, he owned and operated a Hereford ranch in
   Greensboro, Ala. He was a manager for Black Watch Farms in Lynchburg,
   Va., and was a manager for both Hereford and Angus ranches in the
   Midwest. In 1971, he returned to Leedey and retired in 1995.
   
   Mr. McClain was a former member of the Catholic Church at Thermopolis,
   Ala., and St. Mary's in Clinton. He was a member of St. Matthew's
   Church in Elk City.
   
   He married Alyce Powers in 1946.
   
   Survivors include his wife; a son, Edward McClain of Storm Lake, Iowa;
   four daughters, Cynthia Daniel of Blacklick, Ohio, Marsha Mau of
   Houston, Pamela Bouse of Tulsa, and Jacqueline Hanson of Goodnight,
   Texas; 14 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
   
   Amarillo Daily News Jan. 31, 2000