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Submitted: 9/28/23 • Approved: 9/28/23 • Last Updated: 10/1/23 • R1504491-G1504491-S3
Kenneth
April 11, 1928 - August 7, 2016
He attended and graduated from Arkansas Tech with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business. Upon graduation, Kenneth went to work for Swift and Company in Tulsa/Oklahoma City. He soon moved back to Arkansas to work for Goodyear Tire in the Credit Department. In the early 1960's, he sold real estate for Jimmy Taylor and Co. around 1966, Kenneth started his own business, McCain Construction Company. He built a few houses, but soon began to concentrate on basements and foundations. That business expanded with the addition of sons and grandsons. Today, it provides a livelihood for a third generation of the family. Kenneth was a long time member and elder of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He served many roles in the church, but was most noted for his care of the building and grounds.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Sue Elizabeth McCain and his parents, Sidney and lIah McCain.
He is survived by his sister, Joyce Harms, of Little Rock; one daughter, Kenya Harbin, of Fort Smith; two sons, Bill McCain and wife, Mary, and Brian McCain and wife, Lynda; six grandchildren, Bill K. McCain, Sarah Garner, Sydney McCain, Braden Harbin, Murphy McCain, and Grady McCain and fourgreat-grandchlldren.
Pallbearers will be Bill K. McCain, Grady McCain, Braden Harbin, Ross Griggs, Andrew Cox, and Larry Phillips.
Funeral Service will be 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church 605 N 47th Street Fort Smith, Arkansas with Interment to follow at Roselawn Cemetery. Lewis-Roberts Funeral Chapel 4817 Kelley Hwy Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Sue
October 28, 1927 - August 18, 2002
Sue Elizabeth Tucker McCain, 74, of Fort Smith died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2002, in her home.
She was born Oct. 28, 1927, in Dover.
She was a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was a Sunday school teacher, a member of the Cumberland Women's Group, past chapter regent of Daughters American Revolution, former teacher at Arkansas School of Business and a volunteer at the genealogy room for Fort Smith Public Library.
Funeral was at Cumberland Presbyterian Church with burial at Roselawn Cemetery in Fort Smith under the direction of Lewis Funeral Chapel of Fort Smith.
She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Kenneth of the home; a daughter, Kenya Harbin of Fort Smith; two sons, Bill McCain and wife, Mary and Brian McCain and wife, Lynda all of Fort Smith; a sister, Tommye Bell West of Russellville; six grandchildren, Braden Harbin, Bill, Sarah, Sydney, Murphy and Grady McCain.
Pallbearers were Bill McCain, Jeff Morris, Braden Harbin, Steve and Derek Harms and Jim Bill West.
Photo courtesy of Frances Allen Titsworth
Contributed on 9/28/23 by Billsully060
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