Edward Casten

CASTEN, KERR, WALSINGER, PEEL, ANDERSON, HOLLAND

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Date: 12/26/2018 at 15:19:04

Wapello Republican, August 8, 1935, page 1

Edward Casten, 62, Morning Sun, brother of Mrs. Charles Kerr of Wapello, who was visiting here Friday, was stricken that afternoon with heart disease and died immediately.

Coroner George Jamison Saturday ordered an inquest conducted into the death of Mr. Casten. The witnesses were Mrs. Angie Knight and her daughter, Alice Kistenmacher, Sheriff George Oakes, Dr. L. E. Weber, Robert Lewis, town Marshall, and the dead man's niece, Mrs. E. Walsinger.

The jury found he came to his death from a heart attack. The coroner's jury included T. J. Callahan, George Gauss and C. M. Donaldson.

He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Casten, and was born near Marsh, November 1, 1873. He had never married. He is survived by the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. Barton Peel, Morning Sun, with whom he had his home nine years; Mrs. E. A. Anderson, Creston, Mrs. Will Holland, Washington, Albert Casten, and Elmer Casten.

Funeral services were held at the home of his sister, Mrs. Peel, at 2 p.m. Sunday, and burial was at the Morning Sun cemetery.