Miss Barbara Calvary McClain completed her worldly journey on October 2, 2007.

She was born on April 18, 1961, in Cleveland County, NC. She graduated from Kings Mountain Senior High School in 1979 and from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science in Social Services. She utilized her degree by working at the Department of Social Services from 1997 until 2007 as an Assistant Case Manager.

Barbara was preceded in death by her father, Reverend Herbert McClain; her two sisters, Dorothy McClain and Lemoia Jones; and her niece, Teresa Rickerbacker.

She leaves behind an adoring cast to cherish their fondest memories: her mother, Zettie McClain of Grover, NC; her son, Brandon Charles McClain of Pembroke, NC; her sisters, Annie Lee Rickerboacker of Charlotte, NC, Carl and Geanette Haynes of Grover, NC, and Virginia McClain of Gastonia, NC; her brothers, Johnny and Ruby McClain of Monroe, NC, and Charles Herbert McClain of Las Vegas, NV; her special niece, Priscilla Rickenbacker; her nieces, Pamela Jones and Jennifer Haynes; her nephews, Kenneth Dale McClain, Andrea Rickenbacker, Michael Woods, Michael Rickenbacker, and Barry Dean Ross; her goddaughter, Kanandria Hines; a special friend, Darryl Hines; and a host of great nieces and nephews, cousins, other relatives, and friends.