Services Are On Wednesday For Raymond Kastl

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, February 13, 1980, at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church for Raymond Mantel Kastl who died February 10 at the age of 80, at the Tekamah Nursing Home. Rev. Daniel Galas will officiate at the 10 a.m. service. Burial will be in the Herman Cemetery.

Raymond Mantel Kastl was born January 24, 1900, at Malmo, Nebraska, to Frank and Anna Mantel Kastl. He married Wilma Lowe, who survives him. He was a rural mail carrier and lived in rural Herman.

A World War I veteran, he was a member of the Herman American Legion. He also belonged to the Nebraska Rural Letter Carrier Association.

Survivors include his wife, one son, Raymond Kastl of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and one daughter, Mrs. Russell (Nona) Christensen of Baltimore, Maryland. Two grandchildren, Lisa and Eric Christensen, also survive him.

One sister preceded him in death.

Sheilla Pille will be organist for the services.

Pallbearers will be Ernie Samson, Robert Rasmussen, Harold Hancock, Joe Cameron, Joe Fitch and Wayne Miller.

Campbell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements for the services.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~