Leah Ward Caster

© Cheyenne Star

07 Nov 2002

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Services for Mrs. Leah Ward Caster were conducted from the Hammon, Oklahoma Church of Christ Church on Monday, December 15, 1980 at 2:00 p.m. Internment was in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Martin Funeral Home in Elk City.

Mrs. Caster was born July 2, 1891 at Royce City, Texas.

She passed away December 12, 1980 in the Community Hospital.

She came to Elk City in 1910 one year after her marriage to Albert Caster on August 15, 1909 in Blair, Oklahoma.

She and her husband then moved to Hammon in 1915 to farm on a farm northwest of town.

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Opal Gray of El Reno, Oklahoma; Mrs. Jewel Morrow of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Mrs. Doris Morton of Hammon; and Mrs. Theola Canterberry of Ellensburg, Washington; two sons, Troy Caster of Yukon, Oklahoma; and Merrill Caster of El Reno, Oklahoma; brothers, O. D. Ward of Evansville, Indiana; and W. O. Ward of Guthrie, Oklahoma; one sister, Mrs. Mayme McBee; nineteen grandchildren, thirty eight great grandchildren and thirteen great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband; one son; one grandson and one great grandson.