CASPER, Cecil H.

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ March 29, 2000, p. A16 Cecil H. Casper of Morristown, died March 25 in Wickenburg. He was 80. Mr. Casper was born May 4, 1919 in Arkansas to Joseph and Sara Mahilla Casper. He had lived in Arizona for the past 12 years. Cecil was raised on a farm in Arkansas and continued to farm after marrying Rosie Lee Duncan on Oct. 4, 1942. They moved to Illinois where he was a carpenter for several years. He helped build a new addition on the Sterling (Ill.) Community Hospital. He went to work for Northwestern Steel & Wire Co. in Sterling, for 28 ½ years, from which he retired in 1983. Cecil and Rosie then relocated to Arizona in 1987, to Wickenburg. He was a member of Gospel Outreach Church since arriving here. Cecil enjoyed many hobbies which included oil painting and woodworking, which were his main interests. If anyone went by the house on Washington Street in Wickenburg they would have seen his other hobby, which was growing some of the most beautiful flowers in the area. After he became ill and couldn’t get outside he took up quilting. He will be loved and missed by all who knew him. He was one that knew no stranger, each always becoming his friend. Survivors include his wife, Rosie Casper of Morristown; son, Cecil “Ed” Casper of Morristown; daughters, Glenda S. Hunter of Jonesboro, Ark., and Joan Oltmans of Sterling, Ill.; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were Tuesday, March 28 at the Brown’s Wickenburg Funeral Home Chapel, which handled all the arrangements. Pastor Victor Bedoian officiated. Burial was in the Morristown Cemetery.