Services: 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, West Union Missionary Baptist Church. Burial: Followed in Mound Cemetery.
Ms. Rains, 84, El Dorado Springs, was born to Rupert and Maggie Budd Brower, and died in her home Wednesday.
As a girl, she attended grade school at the Gordon schoolhouse, and graduated high school from El Dorado Springs in 1947. She was saved when she was 9 years old at the Flat Rock schoolhouse in Pleasant View during a holiness revival. She attended church at Oakdale Holiness Church while growing up.
She married Joe Donald Rains June 18, 1947, and they had three children. They attended West Union Missionary Baptist Church as a family where she taught the little children’s Sunday school class for years, and remained an active member all of her life, including last Sunday. She and her husband lived and worked on their cattle and wheat farm for 54 years. They moved to town in 2001.
Survivors include three children, Jimmy and and wife Jena, Donnie and wife Karen and Jackie and husband George; sisters and brother-in-law, Dolly Hague and Betty and Alden Sallee; an aunt, Marge Goodwin; grandchildren, Shawna and Len Bridges, Brandi and Travis Bradley, Chad and Trish Boyles, Stanton and Sara Rains, Lori and Justin Sifford, Kenton and Jennifer Rains, Amy and Darren Mead and Clayton Rains; great-grandchildren, Holden and Neely Bridges, KaLee and Mat Wisner, Rylie and Connor Bradley, Hunter and Tanner Boyles, Trenton and Weston and Liam Beau Rains; stepgrandchildren, Shawn and Ben Beaman and Davis and Andrew Worthington; stepgreat-grandchildren, Kaytlynn, Tye and Cole Garretson; many nieces, Rains, Harrison and Jackson Sifford, Preston Jack and Zoe Rains and Gracie Ruth and Lane Mead; and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Donald; daughter Ruthie Rains; and brothers and sisters-in-law, Merle, Leona, Ernie Dale and Mary Brower.
Funeral services were at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at West Union Missionary Baptist Church with Bro. Ralph Benham officiating. Burial followed in Mound Cemetery under the direction of Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home. Online condolences can be made at www.blandhackleman.com.
