Helen Lavern McCain, daughter of the late William Robert Kinsey and Mary Ann Butram Kinsey was born on April 15, 1931 at Gideon and departed this life at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau on May 4, 2018 at the age of 87.

Mrs. McCain was a homemaker and a resident of Bloomfield. She was a member of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Dexter. 

She was united in marriage to C.J. McCain in Sikeston on May 28, 1950. Mr. McCain survives of the home.

Survivors include her husband; one son, John McCain (Cinda) of Bloomfield; five grandchildren, Erin Oakley, Seth McCain, Jennifer Tvrdy, William Heck, Megan Byers; and ten great-grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by her parents; by her daughter, Candis Heck; by two brothers, Alfred Kinsey and Raymond Kinsey and by four sisters, Hazel Lambert, Cleo Gray, Nellie Austin and Florence Cato.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 from 11:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.

Funeral services will then be conducted in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter at 2:00 P.M with Rev. Shane Mallard officiating.

Interment will follow in the Oak Ridge Cemetery near Bloomfield. Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements.