John Paul Cassetto, a retired Potlatch Corp. employee, died of cardio-vascular disease Tuesday at the Clarkston Care Center. He was 85.
He worked for 18 years as a carpenter foreman at Potlatch's Lewiston mill, retiring as maintenance foreman in October 1969.
The son of Dominic and Ida Savio Cassetto, he was born Feb. 13, 1907, at West Mineral, Kan.
In 1909, he moved with his family to Lewiston, where he grew up and graduated from Lewiston High School.
He learned to fly in the early 1930s and served for four years in World War II in the Army 8th Air Force, as a staff sergeant in the European Theater. He was awarded a Bronze Star.
He later helped build the old Washington Water Power dam at Lewiston and worked for the Spangler Bakery at Lewiston and Lewiston Cleaners before beginning his career at Potlatch.
Cassetto started out with the cleaning crew at Potlatch and was quickly promoted to the carpenter crew. He was promoted to leadman in 1949 and was named foreman in December 1965.
A marriage to Mildred Summers ended in divorce.
He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church at Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark Moose Lodge at Clarkston, the Clarkston Lions Club, Single Tree of Asotin and the LeFrance Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1443. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, golfing and gardening.
Survivors include two brothers, Michael and Joe Cassetto.
Two sisters, Pauline Stanford and Mary Church, died previously.
Burial will be at Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston, with military honors provided by the VFW.
Lewiston Tribune November 26, 1992
He worked for 18 years as a carpenter foreman at Potlatch's Lewiston mill, retiring as maintenance foreman in October 1969.
The son of Dominic and Ida Savio Cassetto, he was born Feb. 13, 1907, at West Mineral, Kan.
In 1909, he moved with his family to Lewiston, where he grew up and graduated from Lewiston High School.
He learned to fly in the early 1930s and served for four years in World War II in the Army 8th Air Force, as a staff sergeant in the European Theater. He was awarded a Bronze Star.
He later helped build the old Washington Water Power dam at Lewiston and worked for the Spangler Bakery at Lewiston and Lewiston Cleaners before beginning his career at Potlatch.
Cassetto started out with the cleaning crew at Potlatch and was quickly promoted to the carpenter crew. He was promoted to leadman in 1949 and was named foreman in December 1965.
A marriage to Mildred Summers ended in divorce.
He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church at Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark Moose Lodge at Clarkston, the Clarkston Lions Club, Single Tree of Asotin and the LeFrance Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1443. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, golfing and gardening.
Survivors include two brothers, Michael and Joe Cassetto.
Two sisters, Pauline Stanford and Mary Church, died previously.
Burial will be at Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston, with military honors provided by the VFW.
Lewiston Tribune November 26, 1992
John Paul Cassetto, a retired Potlatch Corp. employee, died of cardio-vascular disease Tuesday at the Clarkston Care Center. He was 85.
He worked for 18 years as a carpenter foreman at Potlatch's Lewiston mill, retiring as maintenance foreman in October 1969.
The son of Dominic and Ida Savio Cassetto, he was born Feb. 13, 1907, at West Mineral, Kan.
In 1909, he moved with his family to Lewiston, where he grew up and graduated from Lewiston High School.
He learned to fly in the early 1930s and served for four years in World War II in the Army 8th Air Force, as a staff sergeant in the European Theater. He was awarded a Bronze Star.
He later helped build the old Washington Water Power dam at Lewiston and worked for the Spangler Bakery at Lewiston and Lewiston Cleaners before beginning his career at Potlatch.
Cassetto started out with the cleaning crew at Potlatch and was quickly promoted to the carpenter crew. He was promoted to leadman in 1949 and was named foreman in December 1965.
A marriage to Mildred Summers ended in divorce.
He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church at Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark Moose Lodge at Clarkston, the Clarkston Lions Club, Single Tree of Asotin and the LeFrance Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1443. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, golfing and gardening.
Survivors include two brothers, Michael and Joe Cassetto.
Two sisters, Pauline Stanford and Mary Church, died previously.
Burial will be at Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston, with military honors provided by the VFW.
Lewiston Tribune November 26, 1992
He worked for 18 years as a carpenter foreman at Potlatch's Lewiston mill, retiring as maintenance foreman in October 1969.
The son of Dominic and Ida Savio Cassetto, he was born Feb. 13, 1907, at West Mineral, Kan.
In 1909, he moved with his family to Lewiston, where he grew up and graduated from Lewiston High School.
He learned to fly in the early 1930s and served for four years in World War II in the Army 8th Air Force, as a staff sergeant in the European Theater. He was awarded a Bronze Star.
He later helped build the old Washington Water Power dam at Lewiston and worked for the Spangler Bakery at Lewiston and Lewiston Cleaners before beginning his career at Potlatch.
Cassetto started out with the cleaning crew at Potlatch and was quickly promoted to the carpenter crew. He was promoted to leadman in 1949 and was named foreman in December 1965.
A marriage to Mildred Summers ended in divorce.
He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church at Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark Moose Lodge at Clarkston, the Clarkston Lions Club, Single Tree of Asotin and the LeFrance Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1443. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, golfing and gardening.
Survivors include two brothers, Michael and Joe Cassetto.
Two sisters, Pauline Stanford and Mary Church, died previously.
Burial will be at Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston, with military honors provided by the VFW.
Lewiston Tribune November 26, 1992
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