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Burt Hoyd Cain
Burt Hoyd Cain died Saturday, March 6, 2010, at his home with wife, Clara, and daughter, Patricia Hancock, at his bedside.
Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, in the chapel of Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home with Rev. Jim Hollingsworth officiating. Burial follows in the Mount Tabor Cemetery with Masonic graveside services conducted by Paris Masonic Lodge.
Family receives friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home.
He was born in Cooper, Feb. 12, 1923, to Burton Hoyd Cain and Mattie Vernon Caviness Cain. They moved to the rural community of Caviness, where he attended school in Emberson. He graduated from Paris High School in 1940 and Paris Jr. College in 1942. He then became a teacher at Emberson School and finished out the term of Principal Ned Colvert, who had been drafted into the Army in World War II. He enlisted in the Army in 1943. He served in the South Pacific on the island of Tinian, at the time the Enola Gay bomber was based there for its flights to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. He was discharged in March 1946.
He met his future wife, Jody Allen, on a blind date, arranged by his best friends, Troy and Bill Keeling of Paris. It was the last week of her senior year at Paris High School, where she graduated in May 1946. Jody moved to Junction City, Kan., where her stepfather, Chester McElyea, was stationed at Fort Riley, Kan. He and Troy Keeling moved to California, where they began to search for better-paying jobs. He asked Jody to marry him when he found a steady job. Burt lived in San Francisco, Calif., for a short time, where he had two uncles, Jim and John Caviness. He later moved to the Los Angeles area, to be near his aunt, Myrtle Franklin, living in Burbank. He made application for the Los Angeles Police Department and was accepted to begin his training Aug. 1, 1947. He sent Jody money for a train ticket to join him in Los Angeles. They were married July 29, 1947, in Glendale, Calif. After their marriage, he asked Jody to use her birth name, Clara Jo, which seemed more mature for his new wife. They were married 62 ½ years.
During his 27 years in the Police Department, he was assigned to various divisions, including the Detective Narcotic Division, in charge of recruiting and training new graduates of the Police Academy to work in the “undercover buy” program. He later became a Polygraph Examiner in 1973, until his retirement in 1980. After retirement, he and Clara traversed the country in their Silver Streak trailer for three years, before returning to the Paris area, where his son, Leroy, built their home at Lamar Point. They enjoyed country living for 15 years, where Clara relished flower gardening and hummingbird education, while he became an avid fisherman at Pat Mayse Lake. They moved into the City of Paris in 1998.
Survivors include his wife of 62 ½ years, Clara; sons, Charles Edward Cain and wife, Pamela, Lancaster, Calif., and Leroy Allen Cain of Naalehu, Hawaii; and daughter, Patricia Ann Hancock of Columbia, Mo.; grandchildren, Robert Jacob Cain of MoJave, Calif., and Jovan Rae Gilbert of Centerville, Tenn., James Burton Cain of Lancaster, Calif., Davee Jo Cain of Bend, Ore., and Sarah Jo Cain of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Lauren Ann Hancock of Boston, Mass.; great-grandchildren, Trenady Rae and Abigail Gilbert of Centerville, Tenn., and Sadie of Honolulu, Hawaii; brother, James Lowry Cain of Lamar Point.
Pallbearers are to be Allen Carter, Eddie Kropp, Roy Buster, Tommy Haynes, Steve Keeling, Carl Unger, David Patty and Ollie Hayes.
Honorary Bearers are to be J.C. Howell, Floyd Harris, Dick James, John Fuston and the Domino players at Hopewell.
If desired, please make contributions to Mount Tabor Cemetery Association PO 13, Sumner, TX, 75485.
Online condolences may be sent to the Cain family by visiting www.fry-gibbs.com.
Published March 9, 2010
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