John Edward Cain III was the son of Euphemia Kate Barksdale and John Edward Cain, Jr.
John Edward married Mary Eleanor Rogers on August 26, 1967 at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. To this union three daughters were born Mary Cain Helfrich, Kate Barksdale Cain, and Lisa Emily Cain Voutes. Grandchildren Reid, Hannah, and Loring Helfrich III; John, Mason, and Tully McKee; and Emily and Kamryn Voutes.
John attended elementary school at Parmer School in Belle Meade; St. Thomas Military Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota; and is a 1955 graduate of Vanderbilt University.
In 1951, shortly before graduating Vanderbilt, he entered the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a radar observer in the F-89 fighter jet battalion. After four years of he completed his degree at Vanderbilt. In his early years, John was a competitive skeet and trap shooter. He participated in his first Grand American as a seventeen year old in 1947. After holding countless state, regional and national titles, John retired from competitive shooting in 1970.
John's love of shooting included a passion for duck hunting. John often told his family that he worried the ducks so much they would all "clap their wings when I checked out to greener pastures."
John chose home building as his career. During a poker game, a friend of his father's advised him that with his bold personality he could tell anything, but to choose something "big." After working for a local builder and learning the trade, he started his own company, C & S Builders, His first employee was a bookkeeper from Kentucky named Mary Eleanor Rogers who became his loving wife.
C &S Builders grew and was eventually renamed Fox Ridge Homes. John sold Fox Ridge in 1988, and then helped the employees and some investors buy it back in 1993. Fox Ridge was sold a second time in 1997 to NVR. In his retirement, John became a founder, active investor, and board member of Turnberry Homes, Saussy-Burbank Homes, and the development of the Providence community in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. During his career, John was appointed Chair of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency (1988-1994) by his good friend, Governor Ned Ray McWherter. John considered this one of his most difficult, yet rewarding, jobs. John was a skilled negotiator and visionary. He treated everyone with respect and was a champion of mentoring individuals to better themselves and expand their careers. John's greatest joys were his family and friends. He loved his dogs, nature, traveling, spending time on his farm in Logan County, Kentucky and winters in Naples, Florida.
Quietly philanthropic, John supported many community organizations with out every wanting any recognition. John was a parishioner of St. Henry's Catholic Church, member of Belle Meade Country Club, member of The Society of Amateur Chefs, and a honorary lifetime board member at Cumberland Heights Foundation.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville.
John Edward married Mary Eleanor Rogers on August 26, 1967 at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. To this union three daughters were born Mary Cain Helfrich, Kate Barksdale Cain, and Lisa Emily Cain Voutes. Grandchildren Reid, Hannah, and Loring Helfrich III; John, Mason, and Tully McKee; and Emily and Kamryn Voutes.
John attended elementary school at Parmer School in Belle Meade; St. Thomas Military Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota; and is a 1955 graduate of Vanderbilt University.
In 1951, shortly before graduating Vanderbilt, he entered the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a radar observer in the F-89 fighter jet battalion. After four years of he completed his degree at Vanderbilt. In his early years, John was a competitive skeet and trap shooter. He participated in his first Grand American as a seventeen year old in 1947. After holding countless state, regional and national titles, John retired from competitive shooting in 1970.
John's love of shooting included a passion for duck hunting. John often told his family that he worried the ducks so much they would all "clap their wings when I checked out to greener pastures."
John chose home building as his career. During a poker game, a friend of his father's advised him that with his bold personality he could tell anything, but to choose something "big." After working for a local builder and learning the trade, he started his own company, C & S Builders, His first employee was a bookkeeper from Kentucky named Mary Eleanor Rogers who became his loving wife.
C &S Builders grew and was eventually renamed Fox Ridge Homes. John sold Fox Ridge in 1988, and then helped the employees and some investors buy it back in 1993. Fox Ridge was sold a second time in 1997 to NVR. In his retirement, John became a founder, active investor, and board member of Turnberry Homes, Saussy-Burbank Homes, and the development of the Providence community in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. During his career, John was appointed Chair of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency (1988-1994) by his good friend, Governor Ned Ray McWherter. John considered this one of his most difficult, yet rewarding, jobs. John was a skilled negotiator and visionary. He treated everyone with respect and was a champion of mentoring individuals to better themselves and expand their careers. John's greatest joys were his family and friends. He loved his dogs, nature, traveling, spending time on his farm in Logan County, Kentucky and winters in Naples, Florida.
Quietly philanthropic, John supported many community organizations with out every wanting any recognition. John was a parishioner of St. Henry's Catholic Church, member of Belle Meade Country Club, member of The Society of Amateur Chefs, and a honorary lifetime board member at Cumberland Heights Foundation.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville.
John Edward Cain III was the son of Euphemia Kate Barksdale and John Edward Cain, Jr.
John Edward married Mary Eleanor Rogers on August 26, 1967 at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. To this union three daughters were born Mary Cain Helfrich, Kate Barksdale Cain, and Lisa Emily Cain Voutes. Grandchildren Reid, Hannah, and Loring Helfrich III; John, Mason, and Tully McKee; and Emily and Kamryn Voutes.
John attended elementary school at Parmer School in Belle Meade; St. Thomas Military Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota; and is a 1955 graduate of Vanderbilt University.
In 1951, shortly before graduating Vanderbilt, he entered the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a radar observer in the F-89 fighter jet battalion. After four years of he completed his degree at Vanderbilt. In his early years, John was a competitive skeet and trap shooter. He participated in his first Grand American as a seventeen year old in 1947. After holding countless state, regional and national titles, John retired from competitive shooting in 1970.
John's love of shooting included a passion for duck hunting. John often told his family that he worried the ducks so much they would all "clap their wings when I checked out to greener pastures."
John chose home building as his career. During a poker game, a friend of his father's advised him that with his bold personality he could tell anything, but to choose something "big." After working for a local builder and learning the trade, he started his own company, C & S Builders, His first employee was a bookkeeper from Kentucky named Mary Eleanor Rogers who became his loving wife.
C &S Builders grew and was eventually renamed Fox Ridge Homes. John sold Fox Ridge in 1988, and then helped the employees and some investors buy it back in 1993. Fox Ridge was sold a second time in 1997 to NVR. In his retirement, John became a founder, active investor, and board member of Turnberry Homes, Saussy-Burbank Homes, and the development of the Providence community in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. During his career, John was appointed Chair of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency (1988-1994) by his good friend, Governor Ned Ray McWherter. John considered this one of his most difficult, yet rewarding, jobs. John was a skilled negotiator and visionary. He treated everyone with respect and was a champion of mentoring individuals to better themselves and expand their careers. John's greatest joys were his family and friends. He loved his dogs, nature, traveling, spending time on his farm in Logan County, Kentucky and winters in Naples, Florida.
Quietly philanthropic, John supported many community organizations with out every wanting any recognition. John was a parishioner of St. Henry's Catholic Church, member of Belle Meade Country Club, member of The Society of Amateur Chefs, and a honorary lifetime board member at Cumberland Heights Foundation.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville.
John Edward married Mary Eleanor Rogers on August 26, 1967 at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. To this union three daughters were born Mary Cain Helfrich, Kate Barksdale Cain, and Lisa Emily Cain Voutes. Grandchildren Reid, Hannah, and Loring Helfrich III; John, Mason, and Tully McKee; and Emily and Kamryn Voutes.
John attended elementary school at Parmer School in Belle Meade; St. Thomas Military Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota; and is a 1955 graduate of Vanderbilt University.
In 1951, shortly before graduating Vanderbilt, he entered the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a radar observer in the F-89 fighter jet battalion. After four years of he completed his degree at Vanderbilt. In his early years, John was a competitive skeet and trap shooter. He participated in his first Grand American as a seventeen year old in 1947. After holding countless state, regional and national titles, John retired from competitive shooting in 1970.
John's love of shooting included a passion for duck hunting. John often told his family that he worried the ducks so much they would all "clap their wings when I checked out to greener pastures."
John chose home building as his career. During a poker game, a friend of his father's advised him that with his bold personality he could tell anything, but to choose something "big." After working for a local builder and learning the trade, he started his own company, C & S Builders, His first employee was a bookkeeper from Kentucky named Mary Eleanor Rogers who became his loving wife.
C &S Builders grew and was eventually renamed Fox Ridge Homes. John sold Fox Ridge in 1988, and then helped the employees and some investors buy it back in 1993. Fox Ridge was sold a second time in 1997 to NVR. In his retirement, John became a founder, active investor, and board member of Turnberry Homes, Saussy-Burbank Homes, and the development of the Providence community in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. During his career, John was appointed Chair of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency (1988-1994) by his good friend, Governor Ned Ray McWherter. John considered this one of his most difficult, yet rewarding, jobs. John was a skilled negotiator and visionary. He treated everyone with respect and was a champion of mentoring individuals to better themselves and expand their careers. John's greatest joys were his family and friends. He loved his dogs, nature, traveling, spending time on his farm in Logan County, Kentucky and winters in Naples, Florida.
Quietly philanthropic, John supported many community organizations with out every wanting any recognition. John was a parishioner of St. Henry's Catholic Church, member of Belle Meade Country Club, member of The Society of Amateur Chefs, and a honorary lifetime board member at Cumberland Heights Foundation.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville.
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