Obituaries

• Citation: Vol. 92 No. 4 Pg. 55
• Publication year: 2023
• Pages: 55

Obituaries 92 J. Kan. Bar Assn 4, 55 (2023) Kansas Bar Journal August, 2023

July, 2023

Robert Clair "Bob" Casad

(12/8/1929 - 4/21/2023)

Robert Clair "Bob" Casad passed away on Friday, April 21, 2023. He was born on Dec. 8, 1929, in Council Grove to Clair L. and Eula (Compton) Casad. The great grandson of Kansas pioneers, he grew up in several Kansas towns including Melvern, Norwich, and Atchison, and graduated from Wichita East High School. He attended the University of Kansas, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1950 and a master's degree in economics in 1952.

Bob then served in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in France from 1952-1954. He later attended the University of Michigan Law School on the G.I. Bill, graduating in 1957. It was there he met Sarah McKeighan, and they were married in 1955 and had four children.

In 1959 he joined the faculty of the University of Kansas School of Law and taught there for 38 years. He wrote numerous books, treatises, and articles devoted to helping the civil law develop in ways that would...