Donald Dain

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 on October 14, 1927 to Cecil Vincent Dain and Laura Francis Adams Dain in Osawatomie, KS, where he lived and went to school.

He served in the U.S. 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.

He was a charter member of the Silver Lake Lions Club, which organized June 20, 1964 where he received several awards during his years of service including the Melvin Jones Fellow Humanitarian award from the Lions Club International in 1997.In 1965, Don was one of the original fire fighters when the Lions Club started the Volunteer Fire Department in Silver Lake. He was a member of the Silver Lake American Legion Post #160 since August 8, 1952, and received his fifty-year pin in 2003, he was a member of the Lake Lodge #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 was also a member of the Silver Lake United Methodist Church. He was one of the original trustees of the Silver Lake Scholarship Foundation serving as secretary since it's 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 memory of his mother, Laura Dain.

He was proceeded in death by an infant brother Emery Albertus Dain, an eight year old brother, Cecil Theodore "Teddy" Dain, Osawatomie; a brother Willis "Bill" Dain, Topeka; and 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 nephews also survived him.

Mr. Dain will lie in state Thursday, May 20, 2004, after 1:00 p.m. at Penwell-Gabel Parker-Price Chapel in North Topeka, where the family will receive friends from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Services will be Friday, May 21, 2004 at 2:00 p.m., at Penwell-Gabel Parker-Price Chapel.

Burial will be in the Prairie Home Cemetery in Topeka, where military honors will be conducted by a Ft. Riley Army detail along with Silver Lake Post #160, of the American Legion and Jimmie Lillard Post #31 of the American Legion.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Silver Lake Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 44, Silver Lake, KS 66539 or the Silver Lake United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 188, Silver Lake, KS 66539.