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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., December 3, 1970, page 1
Includes portrait

FUNERAL SERVICE HELD WEDNESDAY FOR ROY H. CAIN, FORMER TEACHER
Loved Teacher Passes

Funeral services for Roy H. Cain were held in the United Methodist Church in White Salmon at 2 p.m. on Wednesday with the Rev. Donald Kaelin officiating.
Roy Cain passed away in Mesa, Arizona on November 28th after a brief illness. Services were held in Mesa on Sunday for the host of friends made during the ten winters the Cains have spent there. They maintained their home in White Salmon until September of this year.
Roy Harvey Cain was born in Creston, Nebraska on September 9, 1887. His death in Arizona this week came in his 83rd year.
In 1916 Roy Cain and Mary E. Hinshaw were married in White Salmon. They observed their Golden Wedding Anniversary here in 1966.
Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Murray of Los Gatos, California and Mrs. Phyllis Evans of Hood River. Keith McCoy of White Salmon shared the warmth of the Cain home for many years. Several grandchildren, including four great grandchildren, will miss this jovial man.
After graduation from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1909, Roy Cain came to White Salmon to teach in the White Salmon High School. Except for brief assignments in the other schools, he taught in the White Salmon system from 1910 until his retirement as superintendent of schools in 1945. The last 20 years of his service to Columbia High School students were uninterrupted.
For many years Roy and Mary Cain have been honored guests at the unions of pre-1946 Columbia High classes. He is well remembered as an exceptional teacher and friend by many generations of students. Plans for a fitting memorial or scholarship at the new Columbia High School have been under discussion with the administration by an alumni committee for some time.
Roy Harvey Cain had a lifelong interest in athletics and was prominent in early day baseball in the White Salmon Valley. For many years he coached Columbia High athletic teams.
Following retirement from the local schools, Roy Cain served as the first manager of Klickitat County Port District No. 1 during its formative years.
Roy Cain was proud of his long lodge affiliations, 45 years with the I.O.O.F. and 35 years with the Masonic Order. As members of the Order of Eastern Star he and Mary where leaders over the years in the Order of Rainbow for Girls. He took great pride in the years he was their rainbow Dad - and later their Rainbow Granddad.
He also served in many capacities as a member of the White Salmon Methodist Church.
Local friends participating in his last rites as bearers were Sam Dalles, Earl R. Dean, William Manly, Jr., C.P. Randall, Richard B. Ship and Lee Whiting. Honorary bearers were Norman Bargabus, Lewis DeWalt, Wilbur Dunlap, Dan N. Hunsaker, Walter Hunsaker, Orie Kreps, Charles W. Oliver and J.W. Roberts.