Klina Elsie (Potter) & John C Casady Tombstone photo
Cheyenne Cemetery
Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

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Klina Elsie Potter Casady

© Cheyenne Star

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services were held on Friday, August 14, 1981 for our beloved Klina E. Casady.

Officiating at the services held in the United Methodist Church in Cheyenne was Rev. Homer Williams.

Burial was in the Cheyenne Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service.

Active pallbearers were Dale Tracy, Rollin Reimer, Fred Cordell, Bob Trammell, Melvin Summers and David Rackley. Honorary pallbearers included C. W. Lester, Clarence Redden, Elmer Rook, W. R. Krows, Harry Chapman and L. L. Males.

Klina Elsie Casady was born June 8, 1891 in Tarney, Missouri to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Potter.

The family moved to Roger Mills County in 1900. Klina attended a one-room school near Durham. After completing the 8th grade, she acquired a Teachers Certificate and started teaching at the age of 16.

She attended Southwestern State College at Weatherford.

On July 23, 1919, Klina was married to John C. Casady in Clinton, Oklahoma.

The couple established a home in Cheyenne where John was Publisher and Editor of The Cheyenne Star. Mrs. Casady was soon involved in the operation of the small weekly newspaper. Year after year these interest grew as she offered her services of news writing and assistance to the people of the area.

Shortly after the death of John Casady in July of 1965 the Cheyenne Star was sold. Klina continued to be a tremendous asset to the newspaper which had encompassed so much of her life. Klina wrote her weekly column entitled "Thinkagraphs By Kay E. See" the week before her death on Tuesady night, August 8, 1981. She also wrote numerous other articles for the paper each week and was always on the "look out for news."

Mrs. Casady authored two books entitled "A Romance of the Soil," a story of the reclamation of Roger Mills County and "Once Every Five Years", a history of the Cheyenne area.

Mrs. Casady, upon her induction into the Western Oklahoma Hall of Fame in Elk City in 1971, called herself "an ordinary person from an ordinary town doing ordinary things".

In 1971, she was named Pioneer Woman of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Country of Oklahoma.

She was presented an award pin by the American Red Cross for 50 years of active membership and service.

Mrs. Casady was an active member for nearly 50 years of the Methodist Church, Rebekah Lodge and Platonic Club of Cheyenne and was an active member of the Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce and Auxiliary of the American Legion.

She was an honorary member of the 4-H Clubs of Oklahoma, member of The Half Century Club of the Oklahoma Press Association and was presented The Friend of the Soil plaque from the State Association of Soil Conservation District of Oklahoma.

Mrs. Casady was past president of the Rebekah Assembly of Oklahoma and past president of the Fourth District Federation of Women's Clubs.

She received the Stanley Draper Distinguished Service Award by the Oklahoma Heritage Association for her outstanding work in preserving Oklahoma History.

She was continually involved in promoting Roger Mills county and Cheyenne.

Klina was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one daughter and one grandchild.

Survivors include one son, David of Sayre; eight grandchildren, Mona Estes of Cleburne, Texas; Barbars Seigman of Geary, Oklahoma; Terry Gaynor of Bedford, Texas; Lind Jones of Ponca City, Oklahoma; Bill Casady and Kelly Casady of Bakersfield, California; Charles Casady of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tim Casady of Clinton, Oklahoma; sixteen great grandchildren; and one sister, Lillye Nobbitt of Pampa, Texas.

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