Maude Lydia McDermond
1868 - 1945 (77 years)
Generation: 1
1. Maude Lydia McDermond was born on 4 Mar 1868 in Annawan, Henry County, Illinois; died on 27 Dec 1945 in Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahomas; was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma. Other Events:
- Census: 1940, Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma
Notes:
Last Rites for Mrs. Cassity to be Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Maude L. Cassity, 77, on e of Tankawa’s leading citizens, who passed away Thursday morning at the Ponca City hospital, will be held Tuesday morning at 10:30 o’clock in the First Christian church with the Rev. Frank B. Ward in charge. Burial will be in the Ponca City I.O.O.F. cemetery where she will be laid to rest by her late husband, George M. Cassity.
A resident of Tankawa for 41 years, Mrs. Cassity had been ill the past two years at her home, 110 South Barnes, and several weeks ago became ill with influenza.
Born on March 4, 1868, at Anawan, Ill., she lived for a time at Sabetha, Kans., from where she and her husband, George Cassity, came to a farm near Marland, then moved to Tonkawa in 1904. Her husband, a pioneer grain dealer at Tonkawa, preceded her in death on December 15, 1934.
She is survived by two nephews of Mr. Cassity – Galen and Martin Cassity, both of whom were reared in her home and both of whom are now in the service. Galen is stationed at a prisoner of war camp in Arizona and Martin recently landed on the west coast from an allied air base in China. Also surviving is her great nephew, Teddy McDermand of Kansas City, Mo.
The burial service is in charge of the McCafferty Funeral home in Tonkawa.
Pallbearers will be Earnest G. See, William Gearheard, Raymond Brining, William Edwards, Morgan Bush and Earl Williams.
The Tonkawa News, Tonkawa, Oklahoma. Monday, 31 December 1945, page 1.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28775969/maude-l.-cassityMaude married George McClelland Cassity on 29 Jun 1886 in Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas. George (son of Martin Peter Marshall "M.P.M." Cassity and Griselle Wheeler) was born on 31 Oct 1863 in Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas; died on 15 Dec 1934 in Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma; was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]