Velma Myrtle Barnette
1886 - 1974 (87 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
1. Velma Myrtle Barnette was born on 24 Mar 1886 in Missouri; died on 26 Feb 1974 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Gretna, Sarpy County, Nebraska. Other Events:
- Census: 1920, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; Velma, age 33, widow, is with her son Earl, age 11.
- Census: 1930, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; Velma, age 43, widow, is an assistant manager at a dancing academy.
- Census: 1940, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; Velma, age 54, is in the household of her son Earl and his wife Ann.
Notes:
Cassity – Velma, age 87, 617 So. 19th St. Survived by son and daughter-in-law, Earl and Ann Cassity, Omaha.
Services Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. Swanson-Golden Mortuary Chapel, Interment Hold Sepulcher Cemetery, Gretna, Nebr.
N.P. Swanson Kenneth Golden Mortuary
3205 Harney 342-1060
Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska. Wednesday 27 February 1974.
Name:
daughter of Isaac Theodore Barnett and Cynthia McHenry
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60214219/velma-myrtle-cassityVelma married James H. Cassity on 29 Apr 1906 in Appanoose County, Iowa. James (son of William M. "John William" Cassity and Frederica "Jennie: Fishback) was born in Feb 1880 in Linn County, Missouri; died on 11 Dec 1915 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Brookfield, Linn County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Earl Cassity
was born on 29 Nov 1907 in Brookfield, Linn County, Missouri; died on 5 Oct 1983 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Gretna, Sarpy County, Nebraska.
Generation: 2
2. Earl Cassity (1.Velma1) was born on 29 Nov 1907 in Brookfield, Linn County, Missouri; died on 5 Oct 1983 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Gretna, Sarpy County, Nebraska. Notes:
Cassity – Earl, age 75 years of 617 So. 19th St. Survived by wife, Ann A.
Funeral services Sat. 10AM at Mortuary. Interment St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Gretna, NE. Visitation with family Fri. 6-8PM at Mortuary.
Fitch & Cole Chapel, Farnam at 36th St. 344-4777
Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska. Thursday, 6 October 1983.
Boy Says Stole Auto To Win Girls’ Favor
Dance Hall Check Boy Gives Police Names Three “Sheik Bandit” Suspects.
Caught in First “Job”
Earl Cassity, 17, check boy at a local dance hall, longed for a motor car so he could be popular with the girls, he told Detectives Buglewicz and Miklas after they had arrested him with a car they charge he stole a few minutes before from near the Grain Exchange.
“It was the first one I ever took,” the boy said. “I had experimented on a dozen or more, but never had been able to back them away from the curb. This one was parked so I could drive it forward.”
The officers arrested the boy when they spotted the stolen car in front of them.
Detective Miklas said the boy gave him names of three “sheik bandits” who had ben patronizing the dance hall where he and his mother, Mrs. Velma Cassidy, 620 South Seventeenth street, operated a check stand. They had confided hold ups in him, he said.
Earl was in jail last July after he shot himself through the hand while trying out some guns he and a chum said they took from a sporting goods house. He also was charged with being one of the gang which tried to haul away the safe from Pelton’s garage and abandoned both truck and safe. He was paroled at that time to his mother.
Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska. Sunday, 25 January 1925, page 3.
Dance Halls Blamed for Youth’s Fall
Poolhalls During Day and Girls at Night Demand Money, Boy Tells Police After Arrest
Names Companions
A round of pool halls in the day time and dance halls at night, indulged in by a group of Omaha boys whose names have not been made public, was described to detectives Saturday night by Earl Cassidy, 17, 620 South Seventeenth street, who was arrested for an alleged automobile theft.
Detectives Buglewicz and Micklas arrested young Cassidy late Saturday, after receiving a report that a car had been stolen from in front of the Grain Exchange building.
“Pardner” of Theft Suspect.
In this confession Cassiday admitted that he was a “pardner” of Orvis Bonham, 18, now in county jail awaiting trail for burglary. These two youths are believed by police to have attempted some 30 daring robberies, may of which turned out so badly that the youths’ efforts seems almost Don Quixotic.
One of the attempted robberies was at the Pelton garage, twenty-second and Farnam streets, in which the youths used an automobile wrecking derrick to lift a safe into a Stutz car. They then discovered that they could not operated the car in which they had place the safe, nor even start it.
Had Enough Guns to Start War.
Another of their exploits, young Cassidy told detectives, was the burglarizing of a sporting goods house, when they obtained enough guns to start a war, but found to their dismay that they didn’t know how to shoot them.
They persevered, however, establishing a rifle range north of Florence. But young Cassidy accidentally shot himself, and as a result he and Benham were arrested. Cassidy was arraigned in juvenile court and paroled to his mother, Mrs. Velma Cassidy, who operated the check stand at a dancing academy.
Young Cassidy defended the actions of the three boys whose names he gave to police, declaring that the cost of shooting pool and doing the dance halls necessitated the business of raising money in some manner. They have no time to earn money any way except by stealing it, the said, according to the detectives.
Perfects Ford Key.
Cassidy’s arrest occurred Saturday only a few minutes after he had taken the car. He said he had perfected a key for stealing Fords, but that he tried 17 before he succeeded in getting one of the temperamental machines under way. He explained that he was none too adept at driving any kind of car, and that he couldn’t back any out, but finally found one which stood parallel with the street. He had only drive as far as Eighteenth and Douglas streets, and was proceeding cautiously when the detectives discovered him, ran him into the curb and arrested him.
Cassidy steadfastly denied that he, himself, came under the sheik class. He declared he couldn’t’ dance, and really hadn’t intended to steal the car.
“I just wanted to take some girls for a ride,” he said.
Omaha Daily Bee, Omaha, Nebraska. Sunday, 25 January 1925, page 1.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60214201/earl-cassityFamily/Spouse: Ann Barron. Ann was born on 4 Jan 1911 in Gretna, Sarpy County, Nebraska; died on 27 Mar 1992; was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Gretna, Sarpy County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]