Obit of Casady, Klina Elsie Potter (c230) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  13 Jan 2001
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Surnames: Casady, Potter, Estes, Seigman, Jones, Nobbitt 

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, 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. 
Klina 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 wa 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 nemaed 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 Fouth District Federation of Women's Clubs. She 
received the Stanley Draper Distingusihed 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, husband 1 daughter, and 1 
grandchild.

Survivors include one son, David of Sayre, 8 grandchildren, Mona Estes, 
Cleburne, Texas; Barbars Seigman, Geary, Oklahoma; Terry Gaynor, Bedford, 
Texas; Lind Jones, Ponca City, Oklahoma; Bill Casady and Kelly Casady, 
Bakersfield, California; Charles Casady, Albuquerque, NM; Tim Casady, 
Clinton, Oklahoma, 16 great grandchildren and 1 sister, Lillye Nobbitt of 
Pampa, Texas 
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