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Obituary [from Pam Bailey]
Marietta Times - Mon, Apr 10 2006
Thomas Edward Casto Sr.
RENO - Thomas Edward Casto Sr., 73, of Ohio 7, Reno, died at 1:25 p.m. Friday (April 7, 2006) in Marietta Memorial Hospital.
He was born Oct. 22, 1932, in Marietta, a son of the late Bernard and Jessie Theobald Casto. He attended Willard Grade School and later Marietta High School. He served with the US Air Force during the Korean conflict and had been awarded the Korean Service Medal, the U.S. Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and later was stationed in Columbus, Ohio, as a firefighter with the U.S. Naval Service. He had also been affiliated with the Ohio National Guard and later was employed at Marietta Concrete Corporation. He was later employed as a driver for R.O. Wetz Transportation Company. He was a life member of Washington County Post 5108, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He is survived by his wife, JoAnn Janes Casto and their two sons, Thomas Casto Jr. (Sylvia) of Manchester, N.H., and Terry Casto (Lesa) of Marietta; three daughters, Tina Lee and her husband, Terry, Anita Ours, and Tammy Jones and her husband, Leroy, all of Marietta; one sister, Mrs. Ronald (Sandi) Carver of Marietta; two brothers-in-law and two sisters-in-law, Jean and Ted Scott of Zanesville and Phillip and Christine Janes of Pataskala, Ohio; and several nephews and nieces. He is also survived by 12 grandchildren, Terri Lee, Melissa Smith, Robin Ours Jr., Lynette Seevers, Tonia West, Shawn Casto, Felisha Casto, Daniel Jones, Scott Jones, Buffie Casto, Terry Casto Jr., and Shauency Lusby; and 14 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his stepfather, Paul Shrader; his grandparents, Jerry and Renie "Mom" Casto and Leander and Bertha Theobald; and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home with Randy Deans officiating. Interment will be in East Lawn Memorial Park with military rites. The local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will have a service at the funeral home at 7 p.m. today. Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of the services.
Memorial contributions may be made in his memory with envelopes that are available at the funeral home.
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