Kain, Earnest 1897-1969

KANE, KAIN, QUICK, MURHY, HERWEHE, KING, MCREYNOLDS, TEMPLETON, SCHRADER

Posted By: Jim Kane (email)
Date: 12/29/2004 at 10:45:14

Earnest Kain
Newton Daily News
Wednesday, April 30, 1969 Page 2

Earnest Kain, 71. Prairie City, longtime resident of the Jasper County area died Monday at Des Moines General Hospital.

Services will be at 2 p.m., Friday at Prairie City United Methodist Church. The Rev. Johnny Kain, Bellevue, Washington, assisted by the Rev. B. D. Hinegardner, Minster of the Church of the Brethren, south of Prairie City, and the Rev. James Sheckler, minister of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, south of Prairie City.

Walters Funeral Home, Prairie City, will handle arrangements.

Surviving are his widow, Anna; four sons, Clyde and Cloman, both of Runnells, the Rev. Johnny of Bellevue, Washington, and Bernard of Prairie City, Mrs. Colleen Murphy, Prairie City, Mrs. Pauline Herwehe, Runnells, Mrs. Darlene King, Nashville, Tennessee, and Mrs. Marlene McReynolds, Prairie City; 39 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Mary Templeton, Monroe, and Mrs. Maude Schrader, Newton, and a brother, Edward of Chariton.

Mr. Kain was a member of the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church, south of Prairie City.

The son of John and Olive Kain, he was born October 22, 1897, in Marion County. He was married to Anna Pearl Quick November 30, 1918, at Knoxville. Mr. Kain farmed in the Pleasant Hill area until moving to Prairie City in 1966.