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Edna Gertrude <I>Shaffer</I> Casey

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Edna Gertrude Shaffer Casey

Birth
Corning, Nemaha County, Kansas, USA
Death
21 May 2002 (aged 92)
Holton, Jackson County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Corning, Nemaha County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
360
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HAVENSVILLE --- Edna Gertrude Casey, 92, Havensville, died Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at a Holton nursing home.

Mrs. Casey was a certified school teacher and taught grades one through eight at Vermillion Elementary School, Lone Tree Country School and Hilbert School, all in Nemaha County, in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

She was born April 11, 1910, in Corning, the daughter of George and Gertrude Timberlake Shaffer. She graduated from Corning High School in 1928.

Mrs. Casey was a member of Buck's Grove United Methodist Church at Havensville where she taught Sunday school and was active in United Methodist Women. She also was a member of Chapter P of the PEO Sisterhood in Holton, had been a 4-H leader and a Republican Precinct Committee Woman.

She married Clarence Tulloch "C.T." Casey on Sept. 7, 1933. He survives.

Other survivors include three daughters, Jan Hodge, Holton, Karen Stewart, Leawood, and Pat Kershner, Dighton; a sister, Helen Marie Murphy, Hutchinson; six grandchildren; and eight great- grandchildren.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Mercer Funeral Home in Holton. Burial will be in Corning Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Jackson County Nursing Home and sent in care of the funeral home.

Topeka Capital-Journal, The, May 23, 2002
HAVENSVILLE --- Edna Gertrude Casey, 92, Havensville, died Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at a Holton nursing home.

Mrs. Casey was a certified school teacher and taught grades one through eight at Vermillion Elementary School, Lone Tree Country School and Hilbert School, all in Nemaha County, in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

She was born April 11, 1910, in Corning, the daughter of George and Gertrude Timberlake Shaffer. She graduated from Corning High School in 1928.

Mrs. Casey was a member of Buck's Grove United Methodist Church at Havensville where she taught Sunday school and was active in United Methodist Women. She also was a member of Chapter P of the PEO Sisterhood in Holton, had been a 4-H leader and a Republican Precinct Committee Woman.

She married Clarence Tulloch "C.T." Casey on Sept. 7, 1933. He survives.

Other survivors include three daughters, Jan Hodge, Holton, Karen Stewart, Leawood, and Pat Kershner, Dighton; a sister, Helen Marie Murphy, Hutchinson; six grandchildren; and eight great- grandchildren.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Mercer Funeral Home in Holton. Burial will be in Corning Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Jackson County Nursing Home and sent in care of the funeral home.

Topeka Capital-Journal, The, May 23, 2002


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