Kass, William J. 1875-1936

KASS

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Date: 10/12/2012 at 20:23:17

LeMars Globe-Post
Monday, January 27, 1936

DEATH CLAIMS WILLIAM KASS
Sioux City Attorney Expires In Minnesota

Funeral services for William J. Kass, 60, Sioux City attorney for 25 years
were held this morning at 10 a.m. in Cathedral of Epiphany Catholic Church
with Rev. T. M. Coughlan officiating. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery.

Active pallbearers were Charley Meyer, Charley Striegel, Joseph Lotz, Joseph
Kass, Ben Dansby and V. J. Hagan.

Honorary pallbearers were directors of the First National Bank of Remsen, W.
G. Sievers, M. R. Faber, Barney Bunkers and Henry Melhopp; and Sioux City
attorneys, C. N. Jepson, Fred H. Free, Ed Pendleton, Del Browning, Carl
Jones and C. M. Stilwell.

Mr. Kass died Friday in a Rochester, Minn., hospital after a year’s sickness
with heart trouble and complications. He was senior member of the law firm
of Kass and Kass.

The body arrived in Sioux City Saturday afternoon.

RETIRED YEAR AGO
Forced to retire from active practice about a year ago because of heart
trouble, Mr. Kass went to the hospital in Minnesota several days ago for
treatment.

Mr. Kass started the practice of law in Sioux City with his brother Jacob.
Following Jacob’s death 10 years ago, the firm name was changed from Kass
Brothers to Kass and Kass when Albert G. Kass joined his uncle, William.

Born on a farm near Remsen, in November, 1875, Mr. Kass attended schools at
Remsen and LeMars and worked in a LeMars bank for several years where he
earned sufficient money to enable him to pursue a higher education.

WAS BANK PRESIDENT
He enrolled in the University of Michigan law school and graduated in 1901.
He returned to Remsen and practice law there several years before going to
Sioux City.

For the past 20 years, until the time of his death, he had served as
president of the First National Bank at Remsen. He was a member of
Cathedral of Epiphany Catholic church, Epiphany council 743, Knights of
Columbus and of Sioux City lodge No. 112, B. P. O. E.

Mrs. Kass died eight years ago.

Survivors include a daughter, Miss Florence Kass; a son, William Kass, both
of Sioux City; and two brothers, Nicholas Kass of Remsen and Louis J. Kass,
of LeMars.