Edward Fast

Freeman, SD

1937, 2750, Orman Dam, BR-2,

Edward Fast, 66, of rural Sully County died Sunday evening at St. Mary's Hospital, Pierre.

The funeral will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church, Blunt, with the Rev. Richard Gould officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, rural Blunt.

Visitation will be Tuesday afternoon and evening at Feigum-Hall Funeral Home, Pierre.

Edward Fast was born May 21, 1915, in Freeman to Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard A. (Mary Unruh) Fast. They moved to Poplar, Mont., then returned to Freeman. When he was 12 years old they moved to Onida. He attended rural schools in the Onida area and worked on the family farm. During the depression he worked for the CCC in the Black Hills.

He married Ida Tschetter April 28, 1945, in Ivanhoe, Minn. They farmed in Sully County until his retirement in 1976.

He had served on the Lincoln Township, Sully County School Board in the late 50s and early 60s.

He is survived by his wife of rural Onida; two sons, Edward S. Fast of Grace City, N.D., and Delbert Fast of Onida; three daughters, Mrs. Sheldon (Corein) Reding of Harrold, Mrs. William (Elaine) Yeager of Onida, and Mrs. Gerard (Darlene) Yeager of Blunt; 18 grandchildren, five brothers, Pete Fast of Windom, Minn., Rudolph and John Fast, both of Seattle, Wash., Arnold Fast of Snyder, Neb., and Henry Fast of Rochester, Minn.; two sisters, Agnus Geortzen of Windom, Minn., and Mary Dyas of Tryan, Okla.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, one brother and three grandchildren.

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