BAST, Ida Bertha Gertrude

BAST, AFFELDT, HILLER, HELD, ACKARMAN, HINRICHS

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/16/2013 at 01:45:14

IDA BERTHA GERTRUDE BAST

VENTURA - Ida Bertha Gertrude Bast, 93, died Saturday (Jan. 8, 2000) at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 301 S. Main St., Ventura, with the Rev. Daird W. Korth officiating. Burial will be in Clear Lake Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, and one hour prior to the service time at the chapel Tuesday.

The family of Ida Bertha Gertrude Bast has requested that memorial contributions be made to Redeemer Lutheran Church in Ventura or to Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City in her memory.

Ida Bertha Gertrude Bast was born on Jan. 16, 1906, in Joliet, Ill., the daughter of Louis and Amelia (Affeldt) Hiller. She was baptized on Oct. 10, 1917, in St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Joliet, Ill., and reaffirmed the faith of her baptism through confirmation on June 26, 1921, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Garner. She received her education in the Ventura school system.

She was united in marriage to Clarence Bast on Dec. 10, 1924, at St. Boniface Catholic Church parsonage in Garner. He preceded her in death on Dec. 17, 1978. After their marriage they farmed together on the family farm south of Ventura.

She was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Ventura, Recreation Hour Club, and Union Township Dozen Club.

Left to cherish her memory are two daughters, Dorothy Held and her husband, Dr. Norman Held, of Ventura, and Delores Ackarman and her husband, Donald, of Clear Lake; six grandchildren, Craig Ackarman and his wife, Linda, of Ventura, Gene Hinrichs and his wife, Kathy, of Ventura, Vickie Nelson and her husband, Steve, of Emmons, Minn., Jill Wilhelm of Clear Lake, Gayle Petersen and her husband, Robert, of Ringstad, and Tim Ackarman of Ventura; seven great-grandchildren, Trisca Mick and her husband, Kent, Tami Dillavou and her husband, Zack, April Wilhelm, D.J. Wilhelm, Brad Olson, Scott Hinrichs and Sarah Hinrichs; one great-great-granddaughter, Joslin Dillavou; and other relatives and friends.

Besides her husband, Clarence Bast, Ida was preceded in death by her parents, four sisters, two brothers, four nephews, one niece, and one son-in-law, Bill Hinrichs.