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Obits > Dorothy May Cain 1906-1981

Daily Gazette, March 16, 1981

Submitted by Melva Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
March 16, 1981 - pg. A4, col. 3

Dorothy Cain

Miss Dorothy May Cain, 74, of 207 W. 2nd St., Tampico, died Sunday evening in Walnut Nursing Home after a long illness.

Graveside services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Tampico Memorial Cemetery with the Rev. George David, pastor of the Tampico United Methodist Church, officiating. Friends may call at the Allen-Schmitt-Garland Funeral Home from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday.

Miss Cain was born Sept. 19, 1906 in Tampico, the daughter of Haney E. and Ada G (Furry) Cain. She attended the Tampico schools. She spent many years running the Cain Drug Store in Tampico and then worked in Rockford and Albuquerque as a bookkeeper and then later moved back to Tampico. She was a member of the Tampico United Methodist Church and the Women's Auxilliary of the Sterling V.F.W.

She is survived by several cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents and four brothers.

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