Casimir Emil Balcerkiewicz “Casey Balcer”

February 14, 1893 – January 26, 1962

Casimir E. (Casey) Baler, 508 North Eighth, Ponca City, OK, died at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Buffalo General Hospital at Buffalo where he had been hospitalized for two weeks.

Born Feb. 24, 1893, at Oklahoma City, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Balcerkiewiczy. He moved as a small child to Billings and attended elementary school. He later attended Tonkawa Prep School and Kendall College (now Tulsa University) at Tulsa.

He enlisted in the armed forces at Perry on May 21, 1918, and was discharged Feb. 26, 1918, at Ft. Sill.

Following Balcer’s discharge, he served his apprenticeship as an electrician at Enid and Ponca City. He and Dora Bowman were married Nov. 26, 1924, at Ponca City.

He was employed by Continental Oil Company for seven years and also worked for different electrical companies here until his retirement Feb. 7, 1958.

He was a member of the Catholic Church, Local Union 444 IBEW adn the American Legion.

Survivors include his wife, Dora, of the home; four sons, Jim of Santa Barbara, Calif., John B. of Buffalo, Gary of Fort Mead, Md., and Bennie, who is stationed in Germany with the U. S. Army; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy McKeown, 1704 North Seventh; five brothers, Frank of Detroit, Tom, Hawthorne, Calif., Martin C. of 936 North Second, Leo of 1312 South Fifth, and Joe, 1112 South Fifth; two sisters, Mrs. Julia Bellinghausen, Tonkawa, and Mrs. Helen Bissey, Detroit, and six grandchildren.

He was proceded in death by a brother, JohnL. who died June 30, 1955, and a sister who died in infancy.

Requiem mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Mary’s Catholic Church with Rev. Joseph B. McGurk in charge. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery under direction of Grace Memorial Chapel.