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Virginia Cunningham Cassel, 88, of Wichita, KS, author of "Juniata Valley", died Saturday, February 23, 2002. Memorial Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 17, 2002 at the Fairmount United Church of Christ at 16th and Fairmount. Raised in Lansdale, PA, Ms. Cassel was an artist, a novelist, and a civil servant with the US Office of Education bilingual and Indian education programs in Washington, DC. In her 40s, she was a social worker in New York City, moving to DC to teach in the pilot Head Start Program. She attended Goucher and Beaver Colleges, graduated from Case Western Reserve, and earned her MA from the University of New Mexico. Widely traveled, her first experience was in 1939 living in Geneva, Switzerland. Single most of her life, and drawn to Japanese Buddhism while living in Washington, DC, in her 60's she studied Greek and began writing novels. She retired to Albuquerque living in Four Hills, painting and teaching creative writing into her mid-80's eventually moving from the Grand Court of Albuquerque to Wichita, KS in May of 2001. Survivors include her children, Dr. Gretchen Cassel Eick of Wichita, KS and Dr. David Cassel of Nashville, TN; grandchildren, Alyson (Eick) Shaw of Northampton, MA; Kendra Eick of Wichita, KS, Kristen and Erin Cassel of Nashville; great-grandchildren, Kara Eick and Ivan Bocobo of Wichita. Memorials to Amnesty International, USA, 322 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10001. Condolences may be emailed to the family via www.cochranmortuary.com
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