BENJAMIN I. KASSEL

ADVANCE - Benjamin I. Kassel of Clayton, La., died Monday, April 22, 1991, at Jefferson Davis Memorial Hospital in Natchez, Miss.

He was born Feb. 19, 1906, at Uniontown, son of Christian and Sulamith Hopfer Kassel.

Survivors include two brothers, Oscar Kassel of Perryville, Edwin Kassel of Clayton, La.; a sister, Mrs. Truman Niswonger of Advance.

He was preceded in death by seven brothers and four sisters.

He was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Natchez. He had farmed all of his life in the Advance area, and for the last 15 years in the Clayton area.

Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson, with the Rev. Karl Leeman officiating.

Friends may call at the funeral home from noon until service time on Thursday.