Cassinda A. Updike, daughter of Elizabeth and Almiron Updike, was born April 12, 1869, in Grant County. At the age of 21 years she was united in marriage to Justice Walker, who preceded her in death in 1901. Six children were born to this union, one of whom, a daughter Nora, (Mrs. Merle Walker) preceded her in death. Five children by marriage survive her, Myrtle (Mrs. Jonathan Payne), Seneca; Elizabeth (Mrs. Joseph Svetnicka), Leona (Mrs. Anson Kinder), Charles and Alden Walker, all of Madison. In 1903 she was married to Robert Standorf, who also preceded her in death in 1927. Four children blessed this union, one son dying in infancy, Lurena (Mrs. Clyde Potter), Platteville; Esther (Mrs. Ernest Ableiter), of Chicago; and Claude Standorf of Madison, survive. She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. John Whitt of Bell Center; five brothers, Charles Updike of Boscobel; Henry of Mt. Hope; Frank of Janesville, Jacob of Pittsburg, Kansas and Grant of Texas; seventy seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. Mrs. Standorf had been in ill health for many months and was a patient in the Prairie du Chien hospital for some time. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jonathan Payne, Seneca, at 3:15 a.m. Dec. 27, 1940, after a 15 months illness at the age of 71 years, 3 months and 14 days. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at Thoni & Godager Funeral Chapel and 1:30 at St. John's Lutheran Church, conducted by Rev. Bodamer of Prairie du Chien and assisted by Rev. F. W. Landdeck. A selection was sung by Rev. and Mrs. Landdeck. Pallbearers were Clifford Kinder, Shirl and LeRoy Walker, Justus, Donald and Randall Svetnicka. Burial was in the Henderson Cemetery, Hickory Grove township, Grant County.