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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Cassell, Harry L.
Funeral services for Harry L. Cassell, who died recently at his home in Los Angeles, were held at the Breesee Undertaking Chapel and interment made in Forrest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale.
Services were conducted by the Masonic Lodge, and Supt. Kearsey of the Los Angeles Schools paid a glowing tribute to his memory. The platform and walls were hidden under the many floral tributes and the Chapel was filled with friends, teachers, pupils from his school who were present to offer tribute to his memory and condolence to his family.
Harry L. Cassell was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1889.
Graduating from the Fort Scott High School and attending the Kansas University two years, he first taught in the Chase County High School in the department of Manual training. He completed his college work by attending summer school at the University of Chicago.
While teaching in Cottonwood Falls he was married to Miss Beth Conaway, youngest daughter of the late Dr. C. L. Conaway, and Mrs. Conaway, and in the summer of 1914 moved with his family to California since which time he has been actively and continuously identified with the schools of Los Angeles county.
His abilities as a teacher were recognized by the Los Angeles school board and promotion and responsibility were thrust upon him. At the time of his death he was a faculty member of the McKinley Junior high school and Principal in charge of the night schools at the McKinley school.
The daily paper published by the school, under the heading �All McKinley mourns the death of Harry L. Cassell,� carried his picture and paid a touching tribute to his memory as a token of the great appreciation in which his services were held and the loss sustained to the school by his untimely death.
One of the most touching evidences of the influence his contact to those he taught was a letter to his family from his night school class in Americanization. This letter signed by Italians, Germans, Jews, Poles and Mexicans, all grown people, all foreigners who were trying, under his guidance, to qualify as good Americans gave such evidence of their grief at the loss of their leader that one could readily realize that in his quiet way he was doing a great work in upbuilding and sustaining our standards of civilization.
He leaves, to mourn his untimely death, besides his wife, one son, Charles Lee, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Marguerite and Virginia. Also his father, W. E. Caswell, and one brother, George, of Fort Scott, Kansas, and a brother, Fred, of Hollywood, Calif.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, May 30, 1928.
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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