Fast, Elizabeth Thiesen (1855-1931)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1931 Sep 16 p. 1

Birth date: 1855

text of obituary:

Mrs. M. B. Fast Called To Her Reward

Reedley, Calif., Sept. 10. — Mrs. Elizabeth Fast, wife of M. B. Fast, died at the family home on L street Wednesday morning at the age of 76 years, 5 months and 13 days.

Mrs. Fast with her husband, came to Reedley in 1910 and with the exception of about two years 1915 to 1917, when Mr. Fast was editor of the Mennonitische Rundschau at the Mennonite Publishing House, the family home was at Reedley.

Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock this forenoon at the Zion church six miles south of Reedley with burial in Zion cemetery. Rev. A. J. Baerg will officiate.

Surviving relatives are her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Agnes Richert, Reedley; two grandchildren, Paul and Esther Richert; two brothers, Peter W. Thiesen of Los Angeles, Jacob J. Thiesen of Reedley, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Friesen of Reedley.