Mable White Kastler (1972)

KASTLER, WHITE, DEWITT, LETZ, COOK, SMITH

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 8/22/2006 at 16:10:56

Winterset Madisonian
July 5, 1972

Mable Kastler Dies At Age 61

Funeral services for Mrs. Mable Kastler who died July 4th at Madison Manor Nursing Home, will be this Thursday at 1 p.m. from Collins Funeral Home here. Burial will be at Resthaven Cemetery in Des Moines.

Mable Marie (White) Kastler, the daughter of Sidney Robert White and Gertrude Mae (Dewitt) White was born in Mongomery County, Iowa on Feb. 3, 1911, the fifth child of seven brothers and sisters. Mrs. Kastler died at the age of 61 years.

She spent most of her childhood in Madison County. On April 22, 1940, she was married to Ray G. Kastler in Mercer, Missouri. Ray preceded her in death on Dec. 3, 1963 at Mountain Home, Ark., where they were residents for nine years. She spent the remaining years of her life in Winterset.

Mable was also preceded in death by her father and mother, one infant brother and a sister, Mildred Letz.

Those who survive are a daughter, Doris Mae (Kastler) Cook of Des Moines and a son, Gordon Ray Kastler of Cupertino, Calif. Also four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Three brothers and one sister, Robert A. White of Paradise, Calif., Myrlee L. Smith, Lawrence J. White, Sidney M. White all of Winterset.

Mrs. Kastler was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church of Des Moines.