Denison Herald
pg.2 

JASPER K. McLAIN
Services for Jasper Keller McLain of 303 W. Texas St., 79-year old farmer and carpenter who died Saturday at his home, were held Monday in Center St. Church of Christ.   Roy Hazel of Gunter, Ed Doggett, elder of the church, and Rev. Thomas Beall, Baptist minister of Bonham, officiated.  Burial was in Cedarlawn Memorial Park directed by Waldo Funeral Home.
McLain was born in Mertens, a son of Arthur Washington McLain and Ella Vanila Keller McLain, and attended schools in Bug Tussle near
Dorchester.
He married Ola Aline Francis on December 17, 1935 in Durant, and following her death, married Marie McCurdy on September 4, 1966 in Sherman.
Mr. McLain was a farmer in the Dorchester and Gunter areas until he retired in 1966 because of poor health.  He was a member of Center St.
Church of Christ.
Surviving are his wife; daughters, Betty Taylor of Sherman and Peggy Maples of Gunter; stepsons, Douglas McCurdy of Carrollton and Scooter
McCurdy of Cedar Park; stepdaughters, Louise Tidwell of Dallas and Nelda Ayres of Austin; sisters, Thelma Reece of Stockton, California; Dorothy Banks and Joyce Duckett, both of Denison and Helen Caylor of Ravenna; 4 grandchildren, 6 stepgrandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were grandsons.


Sherman Democrat
pg. A-13

JASPER KELLER McLAIN
Sherman - Funeral for Jasper Keller McLain, 79, who died Saturday at his home in Sherman, was held at 2 p.m. today in Center St. Church of Christ.   Burial was in  Cedarlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Waldo Funeral Home.
McLain was born February 17, 1908, in Mertens.   He married Ola Aline Francis on December 17, 1935.  She died February 22, 1966.  He later married  Marie McCurdy September 4, 1966, in Sherman.  He was a retired farmer and carpenter in Dorchester and Gunter area.  He retired in 1966.  He attended Bug Tussle School in Dorchester and was a member of the Center Street Church of Christ in Sherman.
Surviving include his wife, Marie; 2 daughters, Betty Taylor of Sherman and Peggy Maples of Gunter; stepsons, Douglas McCurdy of Carrollton and Scooter McCurdy of Cedar Park; 2 stepdaughters, Louise Tidwell of Dallas and Nelda Ayres of Austin; 4 sisters, Thelma Reece of Stockton, California; Dorothy Banks and Joyce Duckett of Denison and Helen Caylor of Ravenna; 4 grandchildren, 6 stepgrandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

(Research note:  Jasper Keller McLain was the grandson of Nathaniel W. McLain and Mary Morris who were married Tallapoosa Co., Alabama.  Jasper's relatives include the Hasten and Perry families who settled in Ellis and Fannin Counties., TX.)