PRINCETON — Hazel Mae Crain, 86, of Princeton passed away Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton.

She was born March 22, 1926, in Princeton, Bureau County, the only child of Arthur and Pearl (Tunis) Crain. She completed elementary, grades and high school in Henry.

Dr. Crain spent 42 years in education. After receiving the baccalaureate degree from Northern Illinois State Teachers College in DeKalb, she taught home economics in Libertyville, Bradley and Geneva high schools for eight years, She earned a Master of Education in Vocational Education from Colorado A&M, Fort Collins, in 1954, and then began teaching at the college level there.