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Home Stillwater, Oklahoma October 2001 Phyllis Jean "Phyl" Cass December 18, 1920 ~ October 14, 2001 Phyllis "Phyl" Jean Cass, 80, died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001, in Stillwater. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Strode Chapel, Carol Fincher officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Strode Funeral Home. She was born Dec. 18, 1920, in Houston, Texas, to Neff Smith and Audrey (Dayger) Cass and grew up mostly in the southwestern region of the country. She graduated from high school while the family lived in Dallas, Texas, and in 1942 graduated from the University of Tulsa with a bachelor's degree in English. The summer following her college graduation she worked as a draftsman in Houston and in the fall became employed with the Army Ordinance Department's Dickson Gun plant near Houston, remaining there through the end of World War II, rising to the position of chief inspector in the Ordinance Department program. After the war, Cass returned to her family in St. Louis and for the next three years worked first in a book store then went to Tulsa for a job in her uncle's laboratory and following a change in the company management took a job in the book department of a large department store. Returning to St. Louis, she found employment as a laboratory technician with the Midwest Rubber Reclaiming Company of East St. Louis in December 1948. Doing well in her position, she was sent in 1954 by the company to their new plant in Paramount, Calif., as head of the laboratory, and remained in that line of work until her retirement. Cass had her home in the Bakersfield, Calif., area and after her father's death provided support for her mother and aunt who had moved to the area to be near her. In the mid 1990s she began experiencing symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and moved to Stillwater to the home of her niece Rebecca Salter and Dr. Robert Lauvetz who became her primary caregivers. She was deceased by her parents, one sister, Audrey Joan Heath and one brother-in-law, Harry Heath Jr. Survivors include a niece, Becky Salter of Stillwater; a nephew, Harry "Hank" Heath III of Tuscaloosa Ala., four great-nieces and one great-nephew. Donations may be made to Judith Karman Hospice, P.O. Box 818, Stillwater 74076. |
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