Obit of Rev. Kinzel Edd "Totsie" Rains(aaa) - Grady County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Sandi Carter 22 Dec 2002 ==================================================================== The Chickasha Star 3 February 1994 REV. KINZEL EDD "TOTSIE" RAINS Funeral for Rev. Kinzel Edd "Totsie" Rains, 66, Chickasha, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, 1994, in the Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home. Rev. Harold Almon of Marlow and Rev. Sherman Rains of Dodge City, Kan., will be officiating. He was born April 29, 1927, near Verden, the seventh child of eight born to Charley Edward and Fannie Pearl (Ashley) Rains. He died at 6:05 a.m. Feb. 2, 1994, in Grady Memorial Hospital after a long battle with heart problems. Totsie was a businessman in Chickasha since 1956. He opened his present business, Appliance Service Center, at 304 Choctaw in August, 1963, and continued until his death. He had a second location at Eighth and Choctaw since December, 1992. Totsie was pastor of Grace Baptist Church, 1910 So. 20th, Chickasha, for 26 years of total service, beginning Jan. 10, 1963. He was pastor of New Hope Baptist Church, which is south and east of Anadarko, for two and a half years. He combined both professions together over the last 31 years by performing marriages and funerals for anyone who asked him to at his place of business or elsewhere. Totsie and Louise Marie Dorman were married Feb. 3, 1945, in Chickasha, and were to celebrate their 49th wedding anniversary today, February 3. Totsie was a veteran of World War II, having served from Nov. 4, 1945, until his discharge from the U. S. Army at Camp Chaffee, Ark., and at El Paso, Texas. He was an expert marksman with a M1 rifle and participated in amateur boxing in the service. He was preceded in death by his parents, Charley and Fannie Rains; an infant brother, Allen Edward; one sister, Lorrine King, who died Jan. 31, 1994, and was buried Feb. 3, 1994. Survivors include his wife, Louise of the home; one daughter and a son-in-law, Barbara and Jim Blackburn of Blanchard; two sisters, Violet Adams of Oklahoma City and Edith Childress of Lancaster, Calif.; three brothers, Thomas Billy Rains of El Reno, J. D. Rains of Oklahoma City, Sherman Rains of Dodge City, Kan.; one granddaughter, Darla Moses of Newcastle, four grandsons, Shanon McClain of Chickasha, James and Scott Blackburn of Norman, Justin Blackburn, serving with the U.S. Army in Korea; two great granddaughters and two great grandsons; and number of relatives, employees and friends. Interment will be in Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home. --------------------------------------------------------------------