Larry McLain
Larry Glenn McLain, 93, of Perryton, died May 21, 2024 in Perryton.
Graveside services will be held Friday, May 24, at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Ochiltree Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.
Viewing and visitation will be held Wednesday, May 22, and Thursday, May 23, from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
He was born June 4, 1930 in Perryton, and married Anna Louise Manning on Jan. 7, 1947.
He was employed by the Perryton Equity for 30 years before he became the owner of McLain Enterprises and McLain Bail Bonds. In 1965, he was commissioned chairman of the Ochiltree Volunteer Parole Board by Gov. John Connally, and later recommissioned in 1970 by Gov. Preston Smith and in 1974 by Gov. Dolph Briscoe.
He was the managing director of theAmerican Community Youth Club in Perryton from 1956-68. He served as president of the Kiwanis Club, the Ochiltree County Senior Citizens Association board for four terms and of the West Texas AAU of the U.S.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Merrill Thomas and Ruby Lucille Gyger McLain; two brothers, Merrill T. McLain, Jr. and Robert McLain; three sisters, Lorene Carter, Betty Docherty and Bennie Flowers; and one granddaughter, Melissa Erin McLain.
He is survived by his wife, Louise, of the home; one son, Glenn McLain of Polk City, IA; one sister, Patsy McLain of Onalaska; one brother, Gail McLain of Alta Vista, KS; and three grandchildren.
Patriotic Music Origins The United States national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” takes its tune from “To Anacreon in Heaven,” the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen’s club of amateur musicians in London. The tune was composed by John Stafford Smith and was used in other patriotic songs before Francis Scott Key set his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry” to Smith’s music in 1814.