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CASS, Claude Dewestoe 1880-1944

CASS, WILCOX, BENTLEY

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 1/20/2015 at 00:00:42

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, July 24, 1944, Waterloo, Iowa]

CASS DIES OF HEART ATTACK ABOARD TRAIN

Railroad Official Stricken on Trip Home; Services Here Thursday.

Funeral services for Claude D. Cass, 64, Waterloo railroad official, who died of a heart attack Sunday afternoon as his train reached a. Chicago station, Monday were tentatively arranged for Thursday here.

Mr. Cass, general counsel for the American Transit association in Washington, D. C., since 1927 and general manager of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern railroad from 1904 to 1923, was fatally stricken by coronary thrombosis as the Pennsylvanian Railroad's Manhattan Limited reached the Chicago station about 2 p. m. Sunday.

Identified from 1901 to 1923 with building and management of the W., C. F. & N. here, he had been ill and under a physician's care at the Shorcham hotel, Washington, for seven weeks, the family reported.

When stricken Sunday, he was en route from the capital to Waterloo "for an extended rest."

Although he maintained a home in Waterloo, Mr. Cass had spent most of the past 17 years in Washington as representative of the transit association, in organization of short line railroad groups. His wife, Leila, died in Washington, of pneumonia last Christmas. The Cass home here was at 205 Prospect Avenue.

A native of Sumner, Ia., son of Stephen F. and Martha Wilcox Cass, he was born June 23, 1880. His education was received in Sumner schools, at the Iowa State Normal and at Drake University's law school, from which he was graduated in 190

In that year, he and his wife, the former Leila F. Bentley, whom he married Sept. 3, 1900, came to Waterloo and joined his brothers, L. S. Cass, J. F. Cass and Gene Cass, in expansion and development of the W., C. F. & N. line.

He became general manager of the railroad in 1904, with brothers L. S. Case, C. D. Cass, as company president. He served in that capacity until autumn, 1923, when C. M. Cheney succeeded him and replaced L. S. Cass as president.

C. C. Cass then became a vice president of the W. C. F. & N. Railway Co. and at it's reorganization early this year, was retained as a vice president and director of the W. C. F. & N. Railroad. While here, he established and directed the Iowa Warehouse Co. and a similar business at Tulsa, Okla

The company in recent years has been headed by a son, Robert D. Case, 1015 Steely Street, as president, but the father has been chairman of the director board.

Mr. Cass, as a Waterloo resident served as a director on the East Waterloo School board; and was a boy scout director; president of Sunnyside Country Club; chairman of the Allen Memorial Hospital building committee; and a member of the Waterloo Elks lodge and Rotary club.

On 1936, he was an alternate delegate to the national Republican convention, held in Cleveland, O.

Surviving him are three sons, Robert D., 1015 Steely; Lt. Cmdr. Richard S., of Tulsa, a graduate of the U. S. naval academy now in the Pacific area with the navy; and Donald L., of Des Moines, an army intelligence staff member, recently arrived in France, and six grandchildren.

Two daughters died in infancy.

The body will be returned to Waterloo and the O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home Monday night, escorted by the son, Robert, and will be at the funeral home until Thursday.

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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, July 25, 1944, Waterloo, Iowa]

Funeral services for Claude D Cass, 64, Waterloo railroad official who died of a heart attack Sunday afternoon as his train reached a Chicago station, will be held at 2:30 p. m. Thursday at the residence, 205 Prospect Avenue, with Rev. Charles J. Gunnell, pastor of Christ Episcopal church, in charge. Burial will be in the family lot at Fairview Cemetery.


 

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