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Alta Mai Sain Dickens, 891

McMinnville resident and DeKalb County native Alta Mai Sain Dickens, 89, died Jan. 18 at Hendersonville Hospital after a brief illness.

A retired CNA with Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro and a member of Central Church of Christ, she was the daughter of Samuel Walker and Ader McArty Fitts; and was preceded in death by husbands, James Leighton Sain in 1969 and Homer Quitham Dickens in 1977; and sons, James Donald Sain in 1998, and Dale Sain in 2001.

She is survived by daughters-in-law, Nancy Ann Sain of Nashville and Patricia Ann Young Sain of Hermitage; grandchildren, Lisa Ann Bullington of Hermitage, Dale Leighton Sain of Nashville and Jon Todd Sain of Springfield; great-grandchildren, Robert Daniel Bullington III, Cori Elizabeth Bullington and Gatlyn Marie Sain; sisters, Loverne F. Dobbs of Marietta, Ga., and Mary Griffith of McMinnville; and brother, Jesse Fitts of McMinnville.

Services were held Wednesday at High’s Chapel with Kirk Brothers officiating. Burial followed at Mt. View Cemetery.

High Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Jan. 21, 2005

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