She was the the youngest of seven children born to Eugene Mills Hancock and Ruth Chastain Hancock. Growing up in Oklahoma City, she excelled at drama, her major at the University of Oklahoma. WWII interrupted college, and she served the U.S. Air Force as the secretary of the Chief Training Officer of the Oklahoma City Air Service Command. During that time, she met and married John Mills Fain, a decorated Air Force Colonel and they settled in Atlanta, GA, his hometown. She served as President, North Side Women's Club; President, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Atlanta; Chairman of the Council of Women, 1973 Billy Graham Crusade; Secretary, Board of Directors, Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention; and training developer, CRU Military Ministry, of which her husband was Founding Director. For 25 years, she taught the Blessing Class at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church and later joined Dunwoody Baptist Church. She was a member of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, The Colonial Dames of America, First Families of Georgia, and Georgia Manakin Huguenot Society (Chaplain). Her biography appears in Helen Kooiman's book Silhouettes: Women Behind Great Men. She was preceded in death by her parents; and husband of 62 years, John. Surviving is her daughter, Jacqueline Fain Nims.
Middle name and birth location courtesy of FaG Contributor: Beth Christy, No. 48744394
Middle name and birth location courtesy of FaG Contributor: Beth Christy, No. 48744394
She was the the youngest of seven children born to Eugene Mills Hancock and Ruth Chastain Hancock. Growing up in Oklahoma City, she excelled at drama, her major at the University of Oklahoma. WWII interrupted college, and she served the U.S. Air Force as the secretary of the Chief Training Officer of the Oklahoma City Air Service Command. During that time, she met and married John Mills Fain, a decorated Air Force Colonel and they settled in Atlanta, GA, his hometown. She served as President, North Side Women's Club; President, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Atlanta; Chairman of the Council of Women, 1973 Billy Graham Crusade; Secretary, Board of Directors, Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention; and training developer, CRU Military Ministry, of which her husband was Founding Director. For 25 years, she taught the Blessing Class at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church and later joined Dunwoody Baptist Church. She was a member of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, The Colonial Dames of America, First Families of Georgia, and Georgia Manakin Huguenot Society (Chaplain). Her biography appears in Helen Kooiman's book Silhouettes: Women Behind Great Men. She was preceded in death by her parents; and husband of 62 years, John. Surviving is her daughter, Jacqueline Fain Nims.
Middle name and birth location courtesy of FaG Contributor: Beth Christy, No. 48744394
Middle name and birth location courtesy of FaG Contributor: Beth Christy, No. 48744394
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