HAYDEN D. MCCASLAND

McCasland Services held in Arkansas

Hayden D. McCasland, 82, of Hot Springs, died Wednesday, Feb. 27 at a local hospital.

A native of Atoka, Oklahoma, he worked for may years for the Oklahoma State Department of Corrections as superintendent of prisons in Stringtown and McLoud Honor Farms. He retired in 1975 and moved to Hot Springs. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Oklahoma Sheriff and Peace Officers Association.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Willa Mae Taylor McCasland, two brothers and two sisters.

Survivors include his wife, Pauline McCasland of Hot Springs; one son, Hayden D. McCasland, Jr. of Norman, Okla.; four daughters, Alice Presson and Sharon Shoket, both of Norman; Nina Holden of Las Cruces, N. M., and Robert McCasland of Hot Springs; two brothers, Stanton McCasland of Odessa, Texas, and Mark McCasland of Atlanta, Texas; and 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held 2 p.m. today at Crestview Mausoleum with Dr. M. J. Timbs officiating. Burial will be at Crestview Cemetery under the direction of Gross Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be grandson: Joseph H. McCasland, Nick Shokat and Steve, David and Jim Presson, all of Norman, and Justin Tharp of Las Cruces, N. M.

Submitted by Hayden D. McCasland, September 6, 1999