McCASLIN, Effie (Kimble)

Date of Birth:  10 Jan 1869 Ohio
Date of Death: 9 Jan 1950 Denver, Colorado

Source: Unknown newspaper, Wednesday, January 11, 1950
Repository: Obituary Files, Johnson County Museum of History, Franklin, Indiana

Effie McCaslin Services Set

Final rites for Mrs. Effie McCaslin have been arranged for Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the Vandivier funeral home. Burial will follow in the Hurricane Community cemetery. The Rev. Golden A. Smith, of the Grace Methodist church, will have charge of the service.

The body will arrive in Franklin Thursday afternoon. Friends may call at the funeral home in the evening from 7 to 9 o'clock. They are invited to attend the rites.

Brief services were conducted in Denver before the party left.

Mrs. McCaslin died Monday in Denver, Col., at the home of her daughter Mrs. Raymond Kelly, the former Enid McCaslin, and Mr. Kelly.

Former House Mother

The widow of Chester McCaslin [sic, William Winchester McCaslin, nicknamed "Ches"], the deceased had lived in Franklin and Johnson county while her husband was living and was house mother at the Tri Delta chapter house while her daughter was a student in Franklin College. She was born in Ohio and would have been 81 on Jan 10.

Mrs. McCaslin made her home with her daugher and moved to Denver two years ago with the Kelly family from Chicago.

Surviving with the only daughter, Mrs. Kelly, are a grandson and a granddaughter.

Submitted by Lois Johnson