Craig J. Cain91, died August 29, 2014 at Kendal at Hanover, NH. He was born in Mankato, MN and was raised through high school on the north side of Chicago, IL before he went to Dartmouth in September of 1941. He graduated from Dartmouth and Thayer School of Engineering.

Craig served for three years in the U. S. Naval Reserve during World War II which included service as an officer with the Seabees in the Philippines and North China. Upon his return from the service, he married the former Jocelyn Enid Mason on 28 December 1946. They lived in Evanston, IL for 43 years. While in Evanston he was elected alderman for eight years during which time he served as Chairman of the Council Committee on Committees and Acting Mayor. He was also a member and Chairman of the Northminster Presbyterian Church Board of Deacons, Elder, Superintendent of a 1400-pupil Sunday School as well as Chairman of the Boy Scout Committee.

He was President and CEO of a concrete pipe manufacturing company until he sold it in 1972. He was Treasurer of the American Concrete Pipe Association and on its Long Range Planning Committee. He was also owner, President and CEO of Chicago Fly Ash Company for 45 years before selling that interest. The mission of that company and its successors was to find and develop uses and markets for coal combustion by-products coming from large steam electric generating stations that would otherwise have to be wasted into landfills.

Craig was a fellow of the American Concrete Institute and of the American Society for Testing and Materials. He received Honorary Membership in that Society and in Committee C9 of ASTM and was awarded the Frank E. Richart medal given only every three years by that Society. He served for over 45 years on the subcommittee writing specifications for the use of coal fly ash in concrete and was its chairman for over ten years.

Jocelyn and Craig had five children, all married, and ten grandchildren. They moved to Kendal at Hanover, a Continuing Care Retirement Community in 1993. At Kendal, Craig served two years as Treasurer of the Residents Council, chairman of the Hearing Impairment Subcommittee, member of the Health Services Committee, and the Facilities Liaison Committee and as organizer for the Kendal Kaffee Klatsch. He was Secretary of the Dartmouth Class of 1945 and Treasurer of the 55th and 60th Reunions of that Class. He was interested in history and family genealogy.

Survivors include his wife Jocelyn, his children, Constance Hungerford of Swarthmore, PA; a son, Christopher Bentley Cain of Walnut Creek, CA; daughters Barbara Hegarty of Cary, NC; Jennifer Cihak of Marquette, MI and Carolyn Eng of Springfield, VA and six granddaughters and four grandsons.

A family service will be held in Illinois at a later date.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover, NH.