Robert Hancock Dains

DAINS Robert Hancock Dains, age 88, husband of the late Barbara Richards Dains, and former Town of Seymour Fire Marshal, died on Thursday, December 13, 2007 in Houston, Texas. Born on West Street in Seymour on December 6, 1919 he continued to live there for 76 years before moving to Tiverton, RI and most recently Houston, Texas. A graduate of Seymour High School Class of 1938, he was a Journeyman Tool and Die Maker and Plant Engineer for the Risdon Manufacturing Company for over 40 years. Dains served in the U.S. Navy aboard the Destroyer Escort USS Haverfield during WW II. He belonged to the Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Connecticut, was Past Master of Morning Star Lodge #47, Past Patron Olive Chapter #26 Order of the Eastern Star, a member of the American Legion Emil Senger Post 10 and a member of the Disabled American Veterans Association as well as the Seymour/Oxford Rotary Club. Bob was a devoted member of the Seymour Fire Dept. Citizens Engine Company No. 2 for over 70 years. He served as Captain in 1960 and Chief from 1975-1983. He was Assistant Fire Marshal in 1982 and, Fire Marshal from 1984 until 1995. Surviving are his daughters Cheryl L. Jordan of Murrieta, CA, Joyce E. Dains and husband Robert Vogler of Houston, Texas, Gale D. Gabriel and husband Richard of Tiverton, RI: and six grandchildren Todd Jordan, Austin Dains, Elizabeth Vogler, Justin Gabriel, Kelsey Gabriel and Joshua Gabriel. A Funeral Service in Celebration of Bob's life will be held on Wednesday January 9, 2008 at 11 a.m. at the Miller-Ward Funeral Home, 260 Bank Street (RT. 67, across from Klarides Village) Seymour with the Rev. Gregory Dawson, Pastor of the Seymour Congregational Church, officiating. Interment will follow in the family plot at Southford Cemetery, Oxford. Full Military Honors will be accorded. Friends and relatives may call at the funeral home on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Expressions of sympathy in Bob's memory may be made to The Citizens Engine Company No. 2, 26 Deforest Street, Seymour, CT 06483