Donald Arthur Dain

1927 - 2004  (76 years)

• Name	Donald Arthur Dain
  Born	14 Oct 1927	Osawatomie, Miami County, Kansas
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 May 2004	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I3100	Rossville
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2019

  
  

  Father	Cecil Vincent Dain,   d. 5 Jan 1980
  Mother	Laura Francis Adams Dain,   b. 2 Jun 1895, Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri ,   d. 3 Feb 1985, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 89 years)
  Married	5 Oct 1920	Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska
  Family ID	F1517	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Buried - - Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Dain, Donald Donald Arthur Dain SILVER LAKE — Donald Arthur Dain, 76, Silver Lake, died of natural causes on Tuesday morning, May 18,2004, at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center. He was born Oct. 14, 1927, to Cecil Vincent Dain and Laura Francis Adams Dain in Osawatomie, where he lived and went to school. He served in the Army from January 1946 to April 1947. Don was a lifelong auctioneer and a partner in Dain/Kellner Auction Service. He retired after many years in the real estate, insurance and tax business. He owned and operated the Silver Lake H & R Block Office for many years until selling it to his sister, Ruth Ellen Hippensteel. Mr. Dain was a charter mem¬ber of the Silver Lake Lions Club, which organized on June 20, 1964, where he received several awards during his years of ser¬vice, including the Melvin Jones Fellow Humanitarian Award from the Lions Club Interna¬tional in 1997. In 1965, Don was one of the original firefighters when the Lion’s Club started the Volunteer Fire Department in Silver Lake. He was a member of the Silver Lake American Legion Post No. 160 since Aug. 8, 1952, and received his 50-year pin in 2003. He was a member of the Lake Lodge No. 50, A.F. & A.M., Topeka Scottish Rite Bodies and the Arab Shrine Temple. He played on the Shriners golf team for many years. He also was a member of Silver Lake United Methodist Church. He was one of the original trustees of the Sil¬ver Lake Scholarship Founda¬tion, serving as secretary since its inception in 1996. In 2001, he made a large donation to the foundation at which time a Don Dain Scholarship was set up in his honor and also one in mem¬ory of his mother, Laura Dain. He was preceded in death by an infant brother, Emery Albertus Dain; an 8-year-old brother, Cecil Theodore "Teddy” Dain, Osawatomie; a brother, Willis "Bill" Dain, Topeka; and a sister, Ruth Ellen Hippensteel, Silver Lake. Immediate survivors are a brother and two sisters, Wesley Dain and Virginia Jackson, both of Silver Lake, and Nellie Spetter, Delia. Several nieces and neph¬ews also survive. Mr. Dain will lie in state after 1 p.m. Thursday at Penwell-Gabel Parker-Price Chapel in North Topeka, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral chapel. Burial will be in Prairie Home Cemetery in Topeka, where military honors will be conducted by a Fort Riley Army detail along with Silver Lake Post No. 160 of the American Legion and Jimmie Lillard Post No. 31 of the Ameri¬can Legion. Memorial contributions may be made to the Silver Lake Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 44, Silver Lake, Kan., 66539, or Silver Lake United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 188, Silver Lake, 66539. Online condolences may be left at www.penwellgabel.com.