William Merritt Case 1897-1966

CASE, SCHNEIDER, KNUDSON, KNUTSON, HOOVEL, HOOVAL

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 6/25/2015 at 00:22:33

Case Dies at Age 69
William Case, 69, of Washington, D.C., former Estherville resident and United States representative to the International Sugar Agreement Council, died Sunday [September 25, 1966] night.

Mr. Case’s death was attributed to a heart attack, suffered while he was visiting his brother, Col. Robert Case, at Cobb Island, Md. Mr. Case was a brother of Maye Case of Estherville.

He visited here last year, coming to Estherville to attend the 50th anniversary of his high school graduating class.

Employed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Mr. Case was official delegate to all negotiating conferences of the International Sugar Agreement, usually held every five years. He also was present as delegate at regulating conferences held three or four times a year in various European cities.

William Merritt Case was born March 1, 1897, in Estherville, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Case. He received his elementary and high school education in Estherville and in 1932 graduated from Colorado State College at Fort Collins, Colo.

He was married to the former Bessie Schneider of Primghar and was a World War I veteran.

Mr. Case is survived by his wife, who is ill and hospitalized in a Washington hospital; two sons, Robert of Denver and William of Peoria, Ill.; a daughter, Betty of Washington, D.C.; three grandsons and one granddaughter; four brothers, Robert of Cobb Island, Md., Harold of Huntington Park, Calif., Edward of Augusta, Ga., Fred of Denver; and three sisters, Maye of Estherville, Mrs. J.C. (Zenovia) Knudson of Corvallis, Ore., and Mrs. J.M. (Henrietta) Hoovel of Alpha, Minn.

Mr. Case will be buried Thursday at 1 p.m. in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, September 27, 1966)