Obit of Fast, Irene E. - Texas County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 05 Mar 2005 Return to Texas County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Amarillo Globe News 29 Oct 1997 Irene E. Fast HOOKER, Okla. - Irene E. Fast, 74, died Saturday, Oct. 25, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in St. John's Lutheran Church with the Rev. J. Robert Herrod officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery near Hooker by Roberts Brothers Funeral Home. Mrs. Fast was born in Hooker. She attended school at the Lutheran parochial school for seven years. She then attended Hooker grade school for her eighth year and graduated from Hooker High School with the class of 1942. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Hooker, where she taught Sunday school during her high school years and was a Sunday school secretary for five years. She also was a member of the Lutheran Ladies Aid. She retired in 1982. Mrs. Fast was a chamber of commerce volunteer and a member of the American Legion Auxiliary. She married Marvin Fast in 1943 at Hugoton, Kan. They were engaged in farming. She was preceded in death by an infant son, Anthony, in 1954 and her husband in 1978. Survivors include a son, Karl Ray Fast of Westminster, Colo.; and a brother, Edwin "Buddy" Carstens of Bloomington, Ill. The family requests memorials be to the St. John's Lutheran Church building fund. They may be left at Roberts Brothers Funeral Home, Box 745, Hooker, Okla. 73945. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Texas County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html