Orville Earl Bast (1966)

BAST, JUNKIN, THOMPSON, ROUTH

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 10/9/2008 at 10:27:55

Earlham Echo – September 15, 1966

Orville Bast Rites

Services were held August 31, 1966 at the Dexter Presbyterian church for Orville Bast, who passed away August 29 at the age of 68. Rev. Charles White was in charge of the services and Mrs. Nadine Shepherd was organist.

Casket bearers were Paul Lenocker, Jim Clausen, Ronald Paullin, Dennis Simpson, Russell Horn, Jasper Lenocker. Honorary Casket bearers were Edwin Blohm, Al Gardner, George Sulgrove, Dr. J. S. Tough, Wayne Glazebrook, Floyd Walker and Walter Schafer. Interment was in the South Oak Cemetery at Stuart.

Obituary

Orville Earl Bast, only son of the late Laura and Bernhardt Bast, was born March 22, 1898 in Madison County, Iowa, and departed this life August 29, 1966 after a lingering illness. He was graduated from the Earlham high school in 1916 and after that attended a trade school at Sioux City, Iowa.

He was united in marriage to Isabella Junkin of Dexter on February 23, 1921, and to this union one daughter, Mary Belle, was born. They lived in Stuart for 16 years, where he worked as a barber. They moved to Dexter in 1936 where he continued in the barber business.

After 1940 he made 9 seasonal trips to Alaska where he worked as a plant foreman for a construction company. He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, Isabelle, his daughter and son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson of Coeur de Alene, Idaho, one sister Lucille Bast of Stuart, besides a host of relatives and friends.

Orville was a kind and loving husband and father, a good neighbor and an honest businessman. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

Mr. Bast was an uncle of Mrs. Amor Routh of Earlham.