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The Glennville Sentinel
Glennville, GA
December 8, 2005 (Page 6)
Lee Clark Cain, 80, a native of Coffee County, AL, died December 5, 2005, at Ogeechee Area
Hospice.
An Honor Graduate of Elba High School in 1943, he was appointed to the Merchant Marine
Academy, and attended medic corpsman-purser's school in New York. He worked for Lykes
Line out of New Orleans, transporting oil along the eastern seaboard during the war years.
After V-J Day, he transported materials to the Philippines and returned troops to the
States.
He attended Troy State University, and received his undergraduate degree from Samford
University. He taught public school in Opp, AL. His mater's degree had been earned
at Peabody when the Korean War erupted, at which time he volunteered for the Air Force.
After service, he returned to his high school teaching career at Fort Walton Beach, FL,
and earned his Doctor of Education at the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa.
In 1962, he came to Georgia Southern College, where he worked supervising student teachers
and advising social science teachers. In 1987, he was made Professor Emeritus.
In the summer of 1939, he and twenty-eight others responded to the call of Christ during a
youth revival at Basin Baptist Church in his home community. He taught Sunday School, and
served for years as pianist. Upon coming to Statesboro, he was involved as a BTU youth
counselor at Statesboro First Baptist Church.
After marriage, he transferred his membership to Statesboro First United Methodist Church.
There he has served as teacher of adult Sunday School classes, on the Administrative
Board, as Lay Leader, on the Missions Commission, in the Historical Societies of the South
Georgia Conference, and the Southeastern Jurisdiction. He has participated in the World
Methodist Conferences in Singapore in 1991; in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1996; and in
Brighton, England, in 2001.
He was the last survivor of the six men in 1967 who re-established a Gideons' Camp in
the area. His speicial Gideon ministry was insuring that each fifth grader in the area
received a New Testament.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Martha Tootle Cain of Statesboro; two sisters and
a brother-in-law, Sibyl Cain Wise of Elba, AL, Patsy Cain Hatcher, and her husband,
Robert, of Dothan, AL; a brother and sister-in-law, James Ralph and Peggy Cain of Elba,
AL; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, December 9, at the Statesboro First
United Methodist Church. Interment will be in the Eastside Cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to The Georgia Gideons International, P O Box 994, Statesboro, GA
30459; The Mission at Statesboro UMC, P O Box 2048, Statesboro, GA 30459; The Cain
Scholarship in Science Education c/o GSU Foundation, P O Box 8053, Statesboro, GA 30460;
Ogeechee Area Hospice, P O Box 531, Statesboro, GA 30459.
Active pallbearers will be Kristopher Cain, Gregory Cain, Jeff Wise, Johnny Shite, Michael
Carr, Jeremiah Tootle, Dr. Jason McGibony, and Johnny Martin, Jr.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Crusaders Sunday School Class and the
Bulloch-Screven Camp Gideons International.
Friends may sign the online register book at
www.joineranderson.com.
Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home of Statesboro, GA, is in charge of the arrangements.