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View Tree for Matthew Francis KastelloMatthew Francis Kastello (b. July 27, 1904, d. July 6, 1978)


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Matthew Francis Kastello (son of Anton Kastello and Anna Kastelic)1394, 1395, 1396, 1397 was born July 27, 1904 in 833 1st Street, LaSalle, Ill.1398, 1399, 1400, 1401, and died July 6, 1978 in IVC Hospital, Peru, Illinois/ Age 731402, 1403, 1404. He married Eva Belle Rimmele on October 19, 1935 in LaSalle Cnty, LaSalle, Illinois1405, 1406, daughter of Roman Wesley Rimmele and Ren Rena Songer.

 Includes NotesNotes for Matthew Francis Kastello:
April 2005

Matthew F. Kastello was the 8th child of Anton Kastello and Anna Kastelic and he was my father-in-law. He was born at home, 833 1st St. in LaSalle. At the time, his father Anton was 44 and a saloon keeper and Anna was 40. Mattie was the 3rd and final child born in the US. There was a 20-year spread between he and his oldest brother Anton who was born in Slovenia. His birth was reported by Mrs. S. Wirtz, LaSalle, Ill.

Mattie was a wonderful man; kind, unassuming, a true family man. He was the son who lived with his parents in their old age, took care of them and had to wait until he was 31 to get married to Eva because there just wasn't enough money. He had to drop out of school in the 7th grade to help support the family. Thank goodness she got pregnant with Matt or who knows when they would have married because Eva was busy raising her sibilings as well, her mother having died of tuberculosis at a very young age.

I was always impressed with how much free reign they gave Mike. Of course, he was a responsible teen, played drums in clubs from his early teens on, and then began to make serious money on weekends with his music. He could always have the family car, they didn't set down rules on when he had to be home, etc. Very different from my family. But then again, when I started dating Mike he was 18 and a freshman at the community college.

They always made me feel welcome and at home with them.
"Dad" belonged to a hunting club and they spent so much of their time there. It was really just an old house near the river with some acreage, but they loved being there. Mike and I would join them sometimes on a Sunday afternoon. It's where I learned to shoot--well, at least I tried.

Matt spent 49 years at the Westclox factory. Every day he walked home for lunch. That was their big meal of the day. I remember "Mom" scurrying about the kitchen to have lunch ready, the Philco radio on top of the frig with the local Clearing House program on WLPO.

They were very frugal people, having come through so much in earlier years. They were very successful in managing their money and bought a home which they lived in until their deaths. It was paid for and they had money in the bank.

They were so proud of their boys. Matt was the first to graduate from college in the family, then on for a Masters Degree, and then Mike with a degree and on to veterinary school, and then later a Ph.D. I do remember them being very concerned when Mike told them he had signed on to the Army after veterinary school (Vietnam era and they allowed him to finish school). They were worried about him being a foot soldier and I don't think anything reassured them that he was going to be safe.

They came to visit us often at the various places we lived around the country and were never an imposition. At one point we were moving to Texas when the Army sent Mike to Baylor College of Medicine for his Ph.D. We owned a travel trailer then, had Andrew 4, Jennifer 2 and I was 7 months pregnant with Manda. We made the trip cross country together and I remember Dad and Mom sitting in the back seat with Jenny between them. Grampa kept trying to teach her the word "purdy" for pretty, just to get a rise out of me.

They loved their grandchildren and we have some wonderful old movies of grandpa on a swing in the playset watching the children. Then there's 20 minutes of him feeding 2-year-old Andrew mashed potatos and ice cream. Did Dad love ice cream?

I remember him always having a big bowl after dinner and then loosening his belt and coming to sit in his favorite chair to watch television.

He was a pillar of St. Roch's Church, always attended mass and took the collections at the 6:30 mass because no one else wanted to get up that early. Eva converted to the Catholic faith when they married and she attended church just as faithfully. Matthew's parents were some of the early founders of this Slovenia church, and indeed, Mike and I were married there in 1966.


Birth Certificate
School record in file
Photographs St. Roch's Church in file
Marriage Cert. in file
Death Certificate
Grave stone in file
Obituary in file
Home photo in file


More About Matthew Francis Kastello:
Burial: July 8, 1978, St. Roch's Church/St. Vincent's Cemetary, LaSalle, IL.1407
Occupation: Factory worker Westclox.1408
Social Security Number: Social Security #: 343-09-8657.1409, 1410, 1411, 1412, 1413, 1414, 1415, 1416, 1417

More About Matthew Francis Kastello and Eva Belle Rimmele:
Marriage 1: October 19, 1935, LaSalle Cnty, LaSalle, Illinois.1418, 1419
Marriage 2: St. Roch's Church, LaSalle, Illinois.1420, 1421, 1422, 1423
Marriage 3: October 19, 1935, St. Roch's Church, LaSalle, Illinois.1424, 1425
Married by: 1425
Witnesses 1: Joseph Bebolla.1425
Witnesses 2: 1425

 Includes NotesMarriage Notes for Matthew Francis Kastello and Eva Belle Rimmele:
See Marriage Certificate in Files. Joseph Bebolla & Mrs. Joseph Bebolla Witnesses. Rev. Paschal Esser.[dianekoehlerkastelloapril2001.FTW]

See Marriage Certificate in Files. Joseph Bebolla & Mrs. Joseph Bebolla Witnesses. Rev. Paschal Esser.[KASTELLO FAMILY TREE.FBK.FTW]

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See Marriage Certificate in Files. Joseph Bebolla & Mrs. Joseph Bebolla Witnesses. Rev. Paschal Esser.

Children of Matthew Francis Kastello and Eva Belle Rimmele are:
  1. +Matthew Francis Kastello, Jr., b. March 26, 1936, LaSalle, Illinois1426, 1427, 1428, d. December 21, 1979, Libertyville, Illinois1429, 1430, 1431.
  2. +Michael Dennis Kastello.
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