Rachel Gaines

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Miss Rachel Gaines, 88, of Searcy, formerly of Blytheville, died Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at Searcy Healthcare Center.

Miss Gaines was a licensed practical nurse (retired) and was employed for 50 years by Walls, Chickasawba and Baptist Hospitals in Blytheville. Her passion in life was taking care of her family and friends and she was a lifelong member of the Yarbro Methodist Church. She was a graduate of Holland High School in Holland, Mo., and loved gardening, fishing and making people laugh.

She was the daughter of the late Henry Clyde Gaines Sr. and Eliza Celestia Seabolt Gaines. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by five brothers and sisters, Henry Clyde "Skinny" Gaines Jr, Robert Tucker Gaines, Virginia Flaherty, Norma Geraldine "Jerrye" Chennault and Lyle Dalton Gaines.

She leaves her nieces and nephews, Don Gaines of Searcy, Joyce Lee Parham of Leed, S.D., Kerry Flaherty of Muskogee, Okla., Kathy Flaherty of Norman, Okla., and Celeste Allen of Portland, Ore.; and

Three great-nieces.

Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Elmwood Cemetery in Blytheville with Dr. Max Briley officiating. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday at Cobb Funeral Home in Blytheville.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Humane Society. Condolences may be e-mailed to cobbfuneralhome@sbcglobal.net