Audrey Pauline Thames Cain

Published 6:00 am Monday, January 19, 2009

Services for Audrey Pauline Thames Cain, of Brookhaven, were 10a.m. Monday, Jan. 19, at Riverwood Family Funeral Service withburial in Easthaven Cemetery. The Revs. Allen King and Mike Evansofficiated.

Mrs. Cain, 90, died Jan. 16, 2009, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. She was born on Aug. 30, 1918, to Walter S. Thames andDottie Ward Thames.

She worked for 23 years as a nurse technician at King’sDaughters Medical Center and volunteered at Brookhaven’s FoodPantry and meals on wheels in her retirement years. She was amember of Jackson Street United Methodist Church. Mrs. Cain wasalso owner and operator of Cain Trailer Park and Cain Snow ConeStand.

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Preceding her in death were her parents; her son, Hiram GordonCain Jr.; her great-grandson, Hunter L. Davis; her sisters, GussieNorton, Jessie Nettles, Ethel Boyd, Nell Case, Helen Eady, EulyceEady and Madge Thames; and her brothers, John Thames, Ray Thames,Ward Thames and Dave Thames.

Survivors are her sons, Walter L. Cain, of Addis, La., and JohnP. Cain and wife, Bonnie, of Brookhaven; her daughters, Patricia A.Fournet, of Addis, La., Alice F. Gill and husband, Robert L., ofBrookhaven, and Jennifer E. Davis and husband, Robert L., ofColumbia, S.C.; her sisters, Dottie R. Hill, of Monticello, andBetty F. Jones, of Nashville, Tenn.; her 15 grandchildren; her 20great-grandchildren; and her many nieces and nephews.