Mary Louise Fast ^{2 3}

  General Notes:

OBITUARY OF MARY LOU FAST OVERMIRE, by Larry Overmire, Feb. 2008:

A descendant of five Mayflower passengers and Revolutionary War hero Christian Fast, Mary Louise was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on 16 Feb 1925, to Irl and Anna Mary (Shriver) Fast.

She graduated from Cleveland Heights High School and from Ohio Wesleyan in 1947. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

On 27 Jun 1945, she married U.S. Navy Ensign Ray E. Overmire Jr., who a month before had survived kamikaze attacks on the USS Bunker Hill off Okinawa. Ray served as executive director of the Lorain Family Y for many years.

Mary Lou taught home economics at Lorain High. She was active in church and civic affairs, serving as president of many organizations including the Lorain branch of American Association of University Women, Lakeland Women's Club, Lorain Wimodasis Club, Lorain Y-Wives and the Bristol Village Women's Club.

She was a member of Northminster United Presbyterian Church in Lorain and Grace United Methodist Church in Waverly.

She loved cats, enjoyed crafts and playing bridge and was an excellent seamstress who designed and made her own clothes.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She was buried after 26 January 2008 in the Ridge Hill Memorial Park in Amherst, OH.

Find A Grave Memorial 28681457
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Mary married Raymond Edwin Overmire, son of Raymond Edwin Overmire and Lydia Lillian Tifft, on 27 June 1946.¹ (Raymond Edwin Overmire was born on 30 January 1923 in Minneapolis, MN,¹ died on 7 February 2008 in Waverly, OH ¹ and was buried after 7 February 2008 in Amherst, OH ¹.)