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Emmit Gray Cassell, 86, Gate City, VA entered into rest
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at the Brian Center in Weber City,
VA. Mr. Cassell was born in Scott County, VA on October
24, 1921, the son of the late Bert and Lizzie Maude Gray
Cassell.
He was a WWII veteran of the 1st Armored Division serving
in the European Theatre. He was a member of the First
Presbyterian Church of Gate City, VA and was retired from
the Eastman Kodak Company. Emmit loved farming, attending
the Carter Fold and watching and listening to the Los
Angeles Dodgers Baseball games.
Surviving are his wife, Edith Pauline Wood Cassell, Gate
City, VA, sons, Walter Cassell and wife, Lynn, Weber City,
VA and Benny Cassell and wife, Diane, Gate City, VA,
grandchildren, Mia Fields and husband, Michael, Weber
City, VA, Lindsay Roberts and husband, Aaron, Gate City,
VA and Jessica Cassell, Knoxville, TN, great grand-
daughter, Sydney Fields, Weber City, VA, sisters, Mae Wood
and husband, Stewart, Bristol, VA, sisters-in-law, Lou
Jane Gilmer, Gate City, VA and Grace Wood, Kingsport, TN;
along with several nieces, nephews and cousins.
The family received friends from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday,
March 21, 2008 at the Gate City Funeral Home. Funeral
services were conducted at 7 p.m. in the Gene Falin
Memorial Chapel of the funeral home with the Rev. Frank
Chapo and the Rev. Don Muncie officiating.
Military graveside services will be conducted at 10 a.m.,
Saturday, March 22, 2008 at the Holston View Cemetery,
Weber City, VA by the America Legion Hammond Post #3 of
Kingsport, TN and #265 of Gate City, VA assisted by
members of the Virginia Army National Guard Honor Guard.
Donald Wood, Walter Dean, Charlie Bill Gray, Harold Dean,
Claude Wood, Buster Dean, Sonny Gray and Troy Glenn will
serve as pallbearers.
The family will be meeting at the funeral home at 9:15
a.m., Saturday, March 22, 2008 to go in procession to the
graveside service. The Cassell family wishes to thank the
staff of the Brian Center and Dr. James Wolfe for their
care and compassion during Emmit's illness. An online
guest registry is available for Mr. Cassell at
http://www.gatecityfunerals.com
In lieu of flowers the family request that contributions
be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Gate City, VA
in the name of Emmit Cassell at P.O. Box 506, 122 Jones
Street, Gate City, VA. Gate City Funeral Home is honored
to be serving the Cassell family.
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