The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois

February 26, 1983 - Friday, pg A6

 

 

 

LeRoy (Red) Cassens, 82, 1704 11th Ave., Sterling, formerly of Tampico, was dead on arrival at Resurrenction Hospital in Chicago on Thursday afternoon after his flight home from Florida on an airlines.

 

Funeral services will be conducted on Monday at 1:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Yorktown with the Rev. Robert J. LeMont, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Yorktown Cemetery. Visitation will be on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Allen-Schmitt-Garland Funeral Chapel in Tampico. A memorial has been established in his memory.

 

LeRoy Cassens was born on April 11, 1900 in Galt, the son of Martin and Ellen Sullivan Cassens.  On Sept. 1, 1920 he was united in marriage to the former Lena Beck in Sterling and she preceded him in death during 1971.  On Nov. 17, 1973 he was married to the former JoAnn Powell in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Yorktown.

 

He lived most of his life in the Tampico area and was a local business man for about 45 years.  He was a well known manufacturer of Hydraulic Equipment with his products being sold all through the midwest by his Company known as Cassens Hydraulic. A member of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Yorktown, he also belonged to the Sterling Elks Club 1218, Sterling Moose Club and the Emerald Hill Country Club.  He was educated in the Galt and Sterling schools and was a graduate of Brown's Business College.

 

Surviving are his wife, JoAnn Powell Cassens; two daughters, Mrs Charles (Marian) Meyers,Clinton, Iowa; and Mrs. Lawrence (Beverly) Berge, Dixon; one son, Robert Cassens, Lyndon; one stepson, Terry Powell, Sterling; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Harry (Arlita) Molln, Lamoille; 17 grandchildren; and several great grandchildren.

 

He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, two brothers and four sisters.