Kaster, Russell Virris

KASTER, PORTER, BANKS, BOWER, HLAD

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Date: 7/20/2005 at 23:38:25

Funeral services for Russell Virris Kaster, 64, of Knoxville, who died Monday, April 12, 2004 at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House, were held Thursday, April 15, at Living Word Fellowship in Knoxville. Pastor Doug Brady officiated at the services. Mary O'Halloran was organist.

Interment was at the Greenwood Cemetery in Knoxville. Casketbearers were Ted Dykstra, John Haning, Bart Hancock, Brandon Babcock, Terry Etter, and Al Smith.

Russell was born on Oct. 22, 1939, in Knoxville, the son of Russell L. and Edith (Porter) Kaster. In 1962 he married Peggy Banks and in 1984 he married Cecelia Bower. On June 28, 2003 he married Sabina Hlad at the Living Word Fellowship in Knoxville.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

He is survived by his wife, Sabina; a daughter, Connie Hancock of Indianola; two sons, Rickey Kaster and wife Diane of Iowa City and Kerry Kaster and wife Devon of Troy, Mich.; two grandsons, Bart and Bradley Hancock; sister, Barbara Smith and husband Al of Hunter's Glenn, N.C.; two brothers, Richard Kaster of Des Moines and Robert Kaster and wife Meljean of Marana, Ariz.; and many other family members and friends.

Memorials may be made to the Hospice of Pella Comfort House or Living Word Fellowship.

Arrangements were made by Bybee & Davis Funeral Home.

The Pella Chronicle, April 23, 2004