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- 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.
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