Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — PRIVATE SECRETARY TO CONGRESSMAN WOOD DEAD [ARTICLE]

PRIVATE SECRETARY TO CONGRESSMAN WOOD DEAD

Miss Myrtle Cassel, private secretary to Congressman Will R. Wood, died in a Washington hospital last Sunday from pneumonia, following an attack of influenza. The body was brought back to Rossville, Indiana, where her people reside, for burial. Miss. Cassel had been employed In Will R. Wood’s law office in Lafayette for the past fifteen years or more. Upwards of twentyfive years ago she lived with her parents in Goodland where her father was principal of the Goodland schools for several years. She will be remembered by many readers of The Democrat In Goodland and vicinity.