This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cain Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOH.2ACIB/2711 Message Board Post: 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.