MCCLAIN, JOHN DAVID - Ashley County, Arkansas | JOHN DAVID MCCLAIN - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

John David MCCLAIN

Egypt Cemetery
Ashley County,
Arkansas

13 Jul 1926 - 20 Aug 2002
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*Obituary
John David "J. D." McClain, 76, of Hamburg died Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at his residence. Born July 13, 1926, in Crossett to David Arther "Red" and Flora Mae McClain, he was a retired carpenter and millwright, an U. S. Navy veteran of World War II, a Thirty-Second Degree Mason and Shriner and a member of the Cloverdale Assembly of God. He loved woodworking and tinkering. He was preceded in death by his father, a daughter, Joyce Ann Stokes, and an infant great-grandson, Shawn Casey Shaddock.Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Eloise Cooley McClain of Hamburg; two sons and their wives, John and Debra McClain of Grenada, MS, and Virgil David and Lenora McClain of Pasadena, TX; two daughters and their husbands, Chloe and Gary Farmer of Hamburg and Dorothy and John Scott of Hot Springs; his mother, Flora McClain; two sisters, Maggie Nell McClain and Annie Mae Pennington and husband Levi of Hot Springs; eleven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.Funeral services were at 10 a.m. Friday, August 23, in the Cloverdale Assembly of God with Justin Uselton, Warren Finney and Steve Franklin officiating. Pallbearers were Rocky Farmer, Wade Farmer, Eric Wall, Tony Wall, Casey McClain, Jason Johnson, and Steven Shaddock. Honorary pallbearers were Robert Marcus Cooley, Wendell Steele, Charles Berryman, Virgil Cooley, Glenn Cooley, Bobby Turner, Sr., James Hamilton, Kenneth Knight, Tommy Johnson, Dewaine Cooley and Bill Nance. Burial followed services at the Egypt Cemetery, directed by Jones Funeral Home of Crossett.

Photo Provided By Doris Cooley [arkie1971@windstream.net]

Contributed on 12/23/11

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Submitted: 12/23/11 • Approved: 12/23/11 • Last Updated: 7/30/12 • R627682-G0-S3

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