EUGENE AND MARY CASSEL FAMILY

In 1854 Bernard and Laurence Cassel came to the United States from Germany. They were headed for the Northwest Territory with a group of settlers. However, when they got to Chicago, they found a keg of German beer and with others they emptied the keg and missed the wagon train. The result was their settling in DuPage County

Bernard bought a farm on Butterfield Road, now known as Herricks Lake. He married Mary Spautz (Spouse) and they had six children: Joseph, Leona, Carrie, J. Peter, Mae and Eugene.

Eugene married Mary Yackley whose grandfather John came from Alsasce. John’s son Joseph, in 1846 settled in Lisle. His farm was at the intersection of Yackley and Railroad Ave.

Eugene and Mary reared four children: Florence, Eugenia (Jennie), Edward and Lorraine. Their farm was at the Intersection of Naperville-Wheaton Rd. and Warrenville Rd., currently the site of Bell Laboratories.
Florence (Flora) married Henry Wiesbrook in 1911 and they had six children: Harold, Wilbur, LaRue, Delmar, Gladys and Florence. Flora died at the birth of her sixth child. Therefore these children were raised by their grandparents, Eugene and Mary Cassel.

Wilbur married Patricia Riedy of Lisle and they have five children: Martin, Cathy, Claudia, Judith and Anna Mae, and reside in Valders, Wisconsin.

LaRue and his wife, Hildred. live in Warrenville, and have six children: Donna, Mary, Sonja, LaRue Jr., Richard and Lori.

Delmar married Margaret Belk and they have three daughters: Diane, Karen and Penny.

Gladys married Sterling Berger and they raised four children.
Florence’s husband Lawrence Lambe was killed in action in World War II.
She later married Donald Nier and they were blessed with three sons: James, Bruce and William, and they live in Eagle River, Wisconsin.

Harold was married to Eleanor Mahar and died in 1968. There were no children born of this union.

Jennie Cassel, daughter of Eugene and Mary, married Frank Rieser and raised five children: Clarence, Bernice, Beatrice, Elnor and Lorraine. They lived in West Chicago and Jennie still resides there at the age of 93.

Clarence married Ruth Kuhn from Wheaton. Myron, Alvin, Laurenda, Charlene and Sally are their children.

Bernice and Joseph Lenertz have four sons: Eddie, James, Richard and Frank, and they live in West Chicago.

Elnor and Everett Gustafson and children, Beverly and Kenneth, live in St. Charles.

Lorraine married Harold Vogt (deceased). They had one adopted son, Harold Jr. Mother and son now reside in West Chicago.

Edward J. Cassel married Myrtle Coddington. He died in 1973 and was the last to bear the Cassel name. Myrtle preceded him in death in 1952.

Lorraine, daughter of Eugene and Mary, married Edward Vogel of Wheaton. They had two daughters, Rosemary married William Nemitz and they have three children: Bill, Judy and Tom. This family’s home is in Michigan. Gloria Jean was married to David Youket They had four children: Christine, Mary Jane, Davie and Amy. Gloria lives in Wheaton.

 
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