Caskey, Eldon E. Sr. 1920-2002

CASKEY, BUTTON, POOR

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/29/2007 at 17:39:45

Eldon E. Caskey Sr., 81, of Sioux City died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2002, at a Sioux City hospital following a brief illness.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Walter Clark of Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Logan Park Cemetery, with military rites conducted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Sergeant Floyd Post 1973. Visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 7 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7:30 p.m. officiated by the Rev. James Pointer of the Sioux City Baptist Church, all at the funeral home.

Mr. Caskey was born April 28, 1920, in Akron, Iowa, the son of Charles and Carrie (Button) Caskey. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II with the military police and in the Medical Corps. He was stationed in Germany and France.

He married Helen A. Poor on April 1, 1943, in Kansas City, Kan. He was employed as a feed mixer with Kay Dee Feed and Nutro-Flo for 30 years. He was later employed as a night watchman for a few years. His wife died July 20, 1993, in Sioux City.

Survivors include three sons and their wives, Eldon and Cathy, and Danny and Terri, all of South Sioux City, and Larry and Gloria of Sioux City; five daughters and their husbands, Barbara and Jim Sanford, Debbie and Dave Rosemeyer, and Tanya and Mike Klink, all of Sioux City, Kay and Paul Welch of Eugene, Ore., and Sue and Ron Roby of Veneta, Ore.; a sister and her husband, Bernice and Jim Hughes of Sioux City; 22 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren.

He was also preceded in death by seven brothers, four sisters and a granddaughter, Jennifer.

Pallbearers will be his grandsons, Brian, Travis and Dannie Caskey, Eddie and Chad Olson, Brandon Young and Clayton Sanford. Honorary pallbearers will be his grandsons, Johnny and Chris Welch and Larry Roby.

[Part of the Darrell Easton Obituary Collecton; source: Sioux City Journal]