Dee Walter Fast ^{1 2 3}

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1880 US Census in Black Creek Township, Mercer, OH on June 1880. ²

1880 US Census
Page 321B, Roll 1048
Black Creek Township, Mercer County, Ohio
Dewalt Fast..Son..3m..OH

(Living with parents.)

NOTE - The enumerator indicated the wrong gender.
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• His obituary was published in the Lima News on 17 May 1962 in Lima, OH.

Services for D. W. Fast, 82, Rt. 3, Celina, who died at 11:20 p.m. Tuesday, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Mt. Tabor Church of God.

A lifetime resident of the Hopewell Township area, and a farmer there, he was born Feb. 7, 1880.

He was married to Edith Hellwarth in 1909. She survives, along with five daughters; Mrs. Mildred Ransbottom, Rt. 3, Rockford; Mrs Katherine Baney, 1747 Allentown Road, Lima; Mrs. Mary Ellen Arnold, West Liberty; Mrs. Betty Hinkle, Rt. 3, Celina; and Mrs. Ruth Mae Schanbacker, Kokomo, Ind.; a sister, Mrs. Gilbert Anspaugh, Lima; and 13 grandchildren.

Rev. S. F. Bauders and Rev. Carl Binkley will conduct services in the church, of which Mr. Fast was a member. Burial will be in North Grove Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Dick and Son Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today.

(Source: Lima News, 17 May 1962)
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• He was buried on 19 May 1962 in the North Grove Cemetery in Celina, OH.

Dee and his wife, Edith, share one common gravestone in North Grove Cemetery which is a large polished vertical face monument of light gray granite. The inscription reads "FAST - Dee W. 1880 - 1962; Edith M. 1884 - 1979". Plot: Ward 1, Row 13.

Find A Grave Memorial #17924882
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Dee married Edith May Hellwarth, daughter of George F. Hellwarth and Catherine Schmidt, on 3 June 1909. (Edith May Hellwarth was born on 27 November 1884 in Ohio,^{4 5} died on 11 February 1979 in , Mercer County, OH ^{1 4 5} and was buried after 11 February 1979 in Celina, OH ⁵.)