Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bain, Mamie C. Jenkins, 2011 

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MAMIE JENKINS "JENKS" BAIN 

  WAKEFIELD - Mamie Jenkins "Jenks" Bain entered into eternal rest on April 6, 
2011 at her home at Green Level Farm in Wakefield, Va.

  Born Sept. 13, 1917, to Edward Sanford Jenkins and Maude St. Clair [sic*] 
Harris Jenkins of Littleton, N.C.  She was also preceded in death by her 
brothers, Robert O’Brian Jenkins and Edward Jenkins; her sisters, Virginia 
Coeburn [sic; Coburn] and Dorothy Riggin [sic; Riggan]; her husband, Fairfield 
S. Bain; and her son, George A. Bain.

  She is survived by her son, Dr. Fairfield T. Bain and his wife, Marian of 
Weatherford, Texas, and Robert W. Bain and his wife, Anita of Ivor.  She is 
also survived by a granddaughter, Jessica Lynn Williams; a grandson George 
Tucker Bain; a great-grandson, Tyler Gaboury; a sister, Edith Osbourne of 
Richmond; several nieces and nephews; and a special friend and neighbor, Anna 
T. Stephenson.

  "Jenks" was a graduate of Littleton High School and received her RN degree 
from Jersey City Hospital.  She worked at Old Lakeview Hospital, in Suffolk, 
before becoming a homemaker and mother.  She was a member of Wakefield United 
Methodist Church and a member of the Pocahontas Bain Sunday school class.

  The family would like to thank her daughter-in-law, Anita; and her care 
provider, Steve Tucker, for their care and devotion to her.

  Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2010, at 
Wakefield United Methodist Church, with Pastor Willie Guill officiating. 
Burial will follow in the Wakefield Cemetery.

  The family will receive friends at a reception following the service in the 
church fellowship hall and at other times at the home of Mrs. Bain.

  In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Wakefield 
United Methodist Church General Funk, P.O. Box 87, Wakefield, VA 23888.

  The family is being served by J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home, in Wakefield.


Mamie Claye "Jenks" (JENKINS; Mrs. Fairfield S.) BAIN, former RN, 
b. 13 Sep 1917, Littleton, Halifax Co., NC, 
d. 6 Apr 2011, at home, Green Level Farm, Wakefield, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery, 9 Apr 2011, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Apr. 9, 2011, p. 8 

*Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Her husband's obits (both "Richmond Times-Dispatch," Feb. 22, 1992) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/b500f1ob.txt 

Her father, employed by Seaboard Air Line, was struck by a car or train at 
   a R.R. crossing in Franklin, 16 Aug 1944, and died the next day.  Her 
   parents are buried in Calvary Methodist Church Cemetery, near Littleton. 

Her sister Edith McRae (JENKINS SOUTH) OSBORNE's 2m. rec. gives their mother's 
   middle name as Sinclair.  (Checterfield Co. 1962 #260) 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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