HARVEY BAIN
ALLEN-Services for Richard Harvey Bain, 70, of Allen are 11:00 a.m. Saturday at the Allen First Baptist Church, Rev. Buddy Drake will officiate. Burial will follow at the Allen Cemetery. Friends and family may call at the Allen Chapel from 4:00 p.m. Friday until service time.
Mr. Bain died Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at a Holdenville nursing home. He was born May 16, 1941 south of Allen, Oklahoma to George Lee and Cora Wanda Tipton Bain. He graduated from Allen High School and attended Murray State College in Tishomingo and East Central University in Ada.
Mr. Bain was employed with Brockway Glass Company in Ada for 26 years. He then went to work for Pontotoc County, District 1, retiring after 11 years of service. Mr. Bain was a farmer and rancher. He served on the Pontotoc County Fair Board for 30 years, was given an Honorary State FFA degree from the Allen Future Farmers of America, and served on the Junior Livestock Show Board.
Survivors include two sons, Lorne Bain and his wife Kellie of Choctaw and Brent Bain of Apache; one daughter, Gina Walden and her husband Gary of Tyler, TX; a brother, Wayne Bain and his wife Audrey of Dickinson, TX; two sisters, Wanda Gary of Pasadena, CA, and Roberta Miller and her husband Dale of Stratford; his grandchildren, Dustin Bain, Jesse Bain, Jaylee Bain, D. J. Bain, Willie Bain and wife Stephanie, Starla Bain, Rachel Walden, Anna Walden, Joel Walden and Joshua Walden; two great grandchildren, Kallin Bain and Joselynn Bain; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Pamela Ann Bain; a grandson, Micah Walden; and brothers and sisters, Leroy Bain, Peggy Young, Jean Jordan and George W. Bain.
Bearers will be Gary Jacobs, Ronny Black, Carey Caldwell, Stan Wallace, Gary Starns and Jesse Rinehart.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the American Cancer Society, Heartland Division, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64105.
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Criswell Funeral Home, Ada