PVT. Casto, Stanley Eugene
Service number: 35885891
Age: 22
Born: June 28, 1922, Huntington Township, Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Hometown: Rutland, Ohio
Family:
William Granville Casto (father)
Cora Alice (nee Smith) Casto (mother)
William Victor Casto (brother)
John Casto (brother)
Granville Leon Casto (brother)
Raymond Smith Casto (brother)
Naomi Jane Casto/Ewing (sister)
Edward Clayton Casto (brother)
James Allen Casto (brother)
Annalu Casto/Payne (sister)
Betty Jean (nee Dunfee) Casto/Biggs (wife) 1944, in Meigs County, Ohio.
Alice Jean Casto/Chapman (daughter) ca. 1944-2023
Rank: Private
Function: Not available
Battalion: 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion
Division : 7th Armored Division
Company: B
Date of death: April 13, 1945
Status: Killed In Action
Place of death: Volkringhausen, Märkischer Kreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Spot: Just south of Volkringhausen
Awards / Commendations:
★ Purple Heart
★ World War II Victory Medal
★ Combat Infantryman Badge
★ Marksmanship Badge
★ American Campaign Medal
★ Army Presidential Unit Citation
★ Army Good Conduct Medal
★ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Grave number: Not available
Cemetery: Vinton Memorial Cemetery
Vinton, Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Date of enlistment: Reported for duty on October 10, 1944 in Gallia County, Ohio.
Other information:
We thank member Barbara Hernden member # 46821986 for the following:
He Gave His Life
In service but six months Pvt. Stanley Eugene Casto, aged 23, was a victim of the fighting in Germany. He entered the Army Oct. 10, 1944, went over March 7 and was killed in action April 13. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Granville Casto of Ewington and the grandson of Mayor B. G. Casto of Vinton.
He was a graduate of Vinton High School and a fine young man with a bright future before him. His tragic death leaves fatherless a five-months baby daughter, Alice Jean, who with her mother, Mrs. Betty Dunfee Casto lives at Rutland. He visited them in January.
Also surviving are six brothers, three in service: John in Alabama; Leon, now in a hospital at Fort Sill, Okla., after 22 months in the South Pacific and Raymond in Hawaii; Victor of Vinton, Jimmy and Billy of Ewington. There are also three sisters, Mrs. Naomi Ewing in California, Betty Casto of Cincinnati and Anna Lou at home.
[Note: 6/28/1922 - 4/13/1945; Company B, 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division, Died near Volkringhausen, Germany; s/o of William Granville and Cora Alice Smith Casto; Buried in Vinton Memorial Park, Vinton, Ohio]
We would like to thank member cigi # 47479778, for the following.
When Stanley Casto was born on 28 June 1922, in Huntington Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States, his father, William Granville Casto, was 34 and his mother, Cora Alice Smith, was 29. He married Betty Jean Dunfee on 15 July 1944, in Meigs, Ohio, United States. He died on 13 April 1945, in Germany, at the age of 22, and was buried in Vinton, Huntington Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States.
PVT. Casto, Stanley Eugene
Service number: 35885891
Age: 22
Born: June 28, 1922, Huntington Township, Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Hometown: Rutland, Ohio
Family:
William Granville Casto (father)
Cora Alice (nee Smith) Casto (mother)
William Victor Casto (brother)
John Casto (brother)
Granville Leon Casto (brother)
Raymond Smith Casto (brother)
Naomi Jane Casto/Ewing (sister)
Edward Clayton Casto (brother)
James Allen Casto (brother)
Annalu Casto/Payne (sister)
Betty Jean (nee Dunfee) Casto/Biggs (wife) 1944, in Meigs County, Ohio.
Alice Jean Casto/Chapman (daughter) ca. 1944-2023
Rank: Private
Function: Not available
Battalion: 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion
Division : 7th Armored Division
Company: B
Date of death: April 13, 1945
Status: Killed In Action
Place of death: Volkringhausen, Märkischer Kreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Spot: Just south of Volkringhausen
Awards / Commendations:
★ Purple Heart
★ World War II Victory Medal
★ Combat Infantryman Badge
★ Marksmanship Badge
★ American Campaign Medal
★ Army Presidential Unit Citation
★ Army Good Conduct Medal
★ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Grave number: Not available
Cemetery: Vinton Memorial Cemetery
Vinton, Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Date of enlistment: Reported for duty on October 10, 1944 in Gallia County, Ohio.
Other information:
We thank member Barbara Hernden member # 46821986 for the following:
He Gave His Life
In service but six months Pvt. Stanley Eugene Casto, aged 23, was a victim of the fighting in Germany. He entered the Army Oct. 10, 1944, went over March 7 and was killed in action April 13. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Granville Casto of Ewington and the grandson of Mayor B. G. Casto of Vinton.
He was a graduate of Vinton High School and a fine young man with a bright future before him. His tragic death leaves fatherless a five-months baby daughter, Alice Jean, who with her mother, Mrs. Betty Dunfee Casto lives at Rutland. He visited them in January.
Also surviving are six brothers, three in service: John in Alabama; Leon, now in a hospital at Fort Sill, Okla., after 22 months in the South Pacific and Raymond in Hawaii; Victor of Vinton, Jimmy and Billy of Ewington. There are also three sisters, Mrs. Naomi Ewing in California, Betty Casto of Cincinnati and Anna Lou at home.
[Note: 6/28/1922 - 4/13/1945; Company B, 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division, Died near Volkringhausen, Germany; s/o of William Granville and Cora Alice Smith Casto; Buried in Vinton Memorial Park, Vinton, Ohio]
We would like to thank member cigi # 47479778, for the following.
When Stanley Casto was born on 28 June 1922, in Huntington Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States, his father, William Granville Casto, was 34 and his mother, Cora Alice Smith, was 29. He married Betty Jean Dunfee on 15 July 1944, in Meigs, Ohio, United States. He died on 13 April 1945, in Germany, at the age of 22, and was buried in Vinton, Huntington Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States.
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