Obit of Lavora Cast (c230) - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Maggie Wettengel   <maggwett1@juno.com>  16 Feb 2002
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::Rush Springs Cemetery--Rush Springs OK

"RITES FOR LAVORA CAST ARE HELD HERE
     Funeral service for Anna Lavora Cast, 23, who died Saturday morning 
in an Oklahoma City hospital, was held Monday afternoon in the Missionary 
Baptist church, Rev. L.W. Raley, pastor, conducting the sevice.  

Interment was made in the Rush Springs cemetery, with Callaway & Mullican 
in  charge.

     Anna Lavora Cast was born April 8, 1912, in the Acme community west 
of Rush Springs, where she was reared, attending the Acme and Rush Springs 
schools.  Her father, Frank Cast, preceded her in death, in 1918. 
 Mrs. Cast and her children left Acme in 1930, after the Acme mill, where 
Lavora's brothers were employed, closed down.  They moved to Oklahoma City, 
where the family home has been since that time.

     Lavora was active in church work here, and at the time of her death 
was a willing worker in the Eastern Avenue Baptist church in Oklahoma City.  
She was held in the highest esteem by all who knew her.

     The cause of Lavora's death was a fractured skull, received last 
Thursday while riding in a car with Frank Kruta, 20-year-old Oklahoma City 
youth, she became nervous and jumped from the moving car.  Neither Lavora 
nor Kruta could give a reason for her action, Lavora stated simply that 
she became nervous, and later that there was no cause for charges to be 
preferred against Kruta.

     Kruta stated that he was taking Lavora to the home in which she had 
employment, and after the accident he took her to a point near her own 
home, where she stated that she did not need medical attention, got out 
of his car and walked to her home.

     From her home, Lavora was quickly taken to an Oklahoma City hospital, 
where it was determined that her skull was fractured.  Her condition became 
worse early Saturday and she passed away that morning, her body being 
brought to Rush Springs that evening for the last rites.

     Surviving are her mother; three sisters, Mrs. Alta Guinn of Ward, 
Ark., Mrs. Opie Kendrick of Breckenridge, Texas, and Mrs. Esta Deatherage 
of Oklahoma City; two brothers, O.J. Cast of Wewoka, and Audie Cast of 
Eunice, New Mexico; an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Cast of Rush 
Springs, and a host of other relatives and friends in this community."
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