Son of Hiram Johnson Casto & Anna Eliza "Lide" Cowen, husband of Virginia M Johnson, father of Dorothy, Caroline, Nancy, and Juliet. He was a prominent attorney in Charleston, West Virginia and a graduate of the University of West Virginia, Morgantown.
Attorney Dies After Surgery
Prominent Democrat party official and Charleston attorney Dale G. Casto, 57, of 1531 Virginia St., E., died last night in a Charleston hospital after complications following surgery.
Mr. Casto, a member of the law firm Kay, Casto and Chaney, was a past president of the Kanawha County Bar Assn.
A native of Ripley, he attended Pomeroy, Ohio High School and was graduated from West Virginia University in 1926 He had been first vice president of the WVU Alumni Assn. He was a member of the Theta Chi social fraternity and Mountain, men's honorary.
He was a member of the Blue Lodge, AF & AM No. 16 of Ripley, a 32nd degree mason in the Charleston lodge, the Scottish rites bodies, and the Beni Kedem Temple.
Casto served as the Kanawha County Democratic Executive Committee in 1932 and was a delegate to Democratic National conventions in 1936 and 1940.
He was a member of the West Virginia and American Bar Assns. Mr. Casto was a former assistant prosecutor for Kanawha County and had been an attorney for the county commissioners and for the construction of Kanawha Airport. He had been admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court, the U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courts in West Virginia, and circuit courts in southern counties in this state.
He was a former chairman of the board of deacons of the First Presbyterian Church. At the time of his death, he was an elder. The Rev. George Vick, pastor of the church, was rush to Charleston to Lewisburg via plane prior to Casto's death yesterday afternoon to be with him.
Mr. Casto was the son of the late H. J. and Lyde Cowen Casto of Ripley.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Johnson Casto; four daughters, Mrs. F. A. Thomas Jr. of Charleston, Mrs. James Agee of Syracuse, N. Y., Mrs. Thomas Coyle of Charleston, and Miss Julia Casto at home; a brother, Creel C. Casto of Tyler Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. James Robbins of Omaha and Mrs. Faust Kerns of Ripley; and 10 grandchildren.
Service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the First Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Dr. George Vick and the Rev. Robert Kirkpatrick. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery.
The family requests that flowers be omitted. Deacons and elders of the church will serve as honorary pallbearers.
The body is at Barlow –Bonsall Funeral Home.
--Daily Mail [WV] Aug 23, 1958 Sat evening edition
Attorney Dies After Surgery
Prominent Democrat party official and Charleston attorney Dale G. Casto, 57, of 1531 Virginia St., E., died last night in a Charleston hospital after complications following surgery.
Mr. Casto, a member of the law firm Kay, Casto and Chaney, was a past president of the Kanawha County Bar Assn.
A native of Ripley, he attended Pomeroy, Ohio High School and was graduated from West Virginia University in 1926 He had been first vice president of the WVU Alumni Assn. He was a member of the Theta Chi social fraternity and Mountain, men's honorary.
He was a member of the Blue Lodge, AF & AM No. 16 of Ripley, a 32nd degree mason in the Charleston lodge, the Scottish rites bodies, and the Beni Kedem Temple.
Casto served as the Kanawha County Democratic Executive Committee in 1932 and was a delegate to Democratic National conventions in 1936 and 1940.
He was a member of the West Virginia and American Bar Assns. Mr. Casto was a former assistant prosecutor for Kanawha County and had been an attorney for the county commissioners and for the construction of Kanawha Airport. He had been admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court, the U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courts in West Virginia, and circuit courts in southern counties in this state.
He was a former chairman of the board of deacons of the First Presbyterian Church. At the time of his death, he was an elder. The Rev. George Vick, pastor of the church, was rush to Charleston to Lewisburg via plane prior to Casto's death yesterday afternoon to be with him.
Mr. Casto was the son of the late H. J. and Lyde Cowen Casto of Ripley.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Johnson Casto; four daughters, Mrs. F. A. Thomas Jr. of Charleston, Mrs. James Agee of Syracuse, N. Y., Mrs. Thomas Coyle of Charleston, and Miss Julia Casto at home; a brother, Creel C. Casto of Tyler Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. James Robbins of Omaha and Mrs. Faust Kerns of Ripley; and 10 grandchildren.
Service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the First Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Dr. George Vick and the Rev. Robert Kirkpatrick. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery.
The family requests that flowers be omitted. Deacons and elders of the church will serve as honorary pallbearers.
The body is at Barlow –Bonsall Funeral Home.
--Daily Mail [WV] Aug 23, 1958 Sat evening edition
Son of Hiram Johnson Casto & Anna Eliza "Lide" Cowen, husband of Virginia M Johnson, father of Dorothy, Caroline, Nancy, and Juliet. He was a prominent attorney in Charleston, West Virginia and a graduate of the University of West Virginia, Morgantown.
Attorney Dies After Surgery
Prominent Democrat party official and Charleston attorney Dale G. Casto, 57, of 1531 Virginia St., E., died last night in a Charleston hospital after complications following surgery.
Mr. Casto, a member of the law firm Kay, Casto and Chaney, was a past president of the Kanawha County Bar Assn.
A native of Ripley, he attended Pomeroy, Ohio High School and was graduated from West Virginia University in 1926 He had been first vice president of the WVU Alumni Assn. He was a member of the Theta Chi social fraternity and Mountain, men's honorary.
He was a member of the Blue Lodge, AF & AM No. 16 of Ripley, a 32nd degree mason in the Charleston lodge, the Scottish rites bodies, and the Beni Kedem Temple.
Casto served as the Kanawha County Democratic Executive Committee in 1932 and was a delegate to Democratic National conventions in 1936 and 1940.
He was a member of the West Virginia and American Bar Assns. Mr. Casto was a former assistant prosecutor for Kanawha County and had been an attorney for the county commissioners and for the construction of Kanawha Airport. He had been admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court, the U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courts in West Virginia, and circuit courts in southern counties in this state.
He was a former chairman of the board of deacons of the First Presbyterian Church. At the time of his death, he was an elder. The Rev. George Vick, pastor of the church, was rush to Charleston to Lewisburg via plane prior to Casto's death yesterday afternoon to be with him.
Mr. Casto was the son of the late H. J. and Lyde Cowen Casto of Ripley.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Johnson Casto; four daughters, Mrs. F. A. Thomas Jr. of Charleston, Mrs. James Agee of Syracuse, N. Y., Mrs. Thomas Coyle of Charleston, and Miss Julia Casto at home; a brother, Creel C. Casto of Tyler Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. James Robbins of Omaha and Mrs. Faust Kerns of Ripley; and 10 grandchildren.
Service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the First Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Dr. George Vick and the Rev. Robert Kirkpatrick. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery.
The family requests that flowers be omitted. Deacons and elders of the church will serve as honorary pallbearers.
The body is at Barlow –Bonsall Funeral Home.
--Daily Mail [WV] Aug 23, 1958 Sat evening edition
Attorney Dies After Surgery
Prominent Democrat party official and Charleston attorney Dale G. Casto, 57, of 1531 Virginia St., E., died last night in a Charleston hospital after complications following surgery.
Mr. Casto, a member of the law firm Kay, Casto and Chaney, was a past president of the Kanawha County Bar Assn.
A native of Ripley, he attended Pomeroy, Ohio High School and was graduated from West Virginia University in 1926 He had been first vice president of the WVU Alumni Assn. He was a member of the Theta Chi social fraternity and Mountain, men's honorary.
He was a member of the Blue Lodge, AF & AM No. 16 of Ripley, a 32nd degree mason in the Charleston lodge, the Scottish rites bodies, and the Beni Kedem Temple.
Casto served as the Kanawha County Democratic Executive Committee in 1932 and was a delegate to Democratic National conventions in 1936 and 1940.
He was a member of the West Virginia and American Bar Assns. Mr. Casto was a former assistant prosecutor for Kanawha County and had been an attorney for the county commissioners and for the construction of Kanawha Airport. He had been admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court, the U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courts in West Virginia, and circuit courts in southern counties in this state.
He was a former chairman of the board of deacons of the First Presbyterian Church. At the time of his death, he was an elder. The Rev. George Vick, pastor of the church, was rush to Charleston to Lewisburg via plane prior to Casto's death yesterday afternoon to be with him.
Mr. Casto was the son of the late H. J. and Lyde Cowen Casto of Ripley.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Johnson Casto; four daughters, Mrs. F. A. Thomas Jr. of Charleston, Mrs. James Agee of Syracuse, N. Y., Mrs. Thomas Coyle of Charleston, and Miss Julia Casto at home; a brother, Creel C. Casto of Tyler Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. James Robbins of Omaha and Mrs. Faust Kerns of Ripley; and 10 grandchildren.
Service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the First Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Dr. George Vick and the Rev. Robert Kirkpatrick. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery.
The family requests that flowers be omitted. Deacons and elders of the church will serve as honorary pallbearers.
The body is at Barlow –Bonsall Funeral Home.
--Daily Mail [WV] Aug 23, 1958 Sat evening edition
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