Dan Baines dies; final rites to be held today
Dan Baines, 86, of Rockmart, Rte. 1, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 7, in the local hospital. Funeral services will be held Thursday, Jan. 9, at 2 p.m. at the Prospect Baptist Church. The Rev. Owen Davis will officiate, and interment will be in Rose Hill Cemetery with the Freeman Harris Funeral Home in charge. Pallbearers will be George, Jackie, Wayne and Leonard Baines, Jr., James Sanford and Henry Lindsey. Mr. Baines was born in Paulding County on Jan. 6, 1889, son of the late George W. and Sarah Little Baines. He was retired from the extermination business and was a member of the Prospect Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mrs. Annie Lee Lindsey Baines. He is survived by one son, John W. Baines, of Rockmart; four daughters, Mrs. Leonard Baines, Mrs. Johnny Davis and Mrs. Aline Hardin, all of Rockmart; and Mrs. Horace McGowan of Jacksonville, Fla.; one brother, Leonard Baines of Rockmart. Twenty-three grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grand- children also survive. (The Rockmart Journal, January 1975)

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