Mrs. Ida Fast, for many years a resident of this community passed away at Procter hospital in Peoria last Thursday, after an operation had been performed in an effort to prolong her life. She was well known to many residents of this place until the death of her husband in 1901 when she went to live with her daughter.

The following life sketch has been handed us for publication:

Ida M. Selby, daughter of William and Sarah Selby, was born in Peoria. When a very small girl her family moved to a farm six miles west of Princeville where her girlhood days were spent. She attended the public schools of Princeville and taught in the schools of Stark and Peoria counties.

On December 14, 1881, she was married to Charles A. Fast. Their married life was spent on a farm one and one-half miles northwest of Princeville. One daughter, Gladys, was born to this union, now the wife of J. L. Reeder of Peoria and with them Mrs. Fast has made her home since the death of Mr. Fast in December 1901.

The old friends of Charley and Ida cannot fail to remember the happy hospitable home where young and old were made welcome. Both processed in a marked degree those qualities that endeared them to friends and neighbors. In these later years many new and loyal friends have come into Mrs. Fast’s life but she loved to go back to the old home and renew the old friendships.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. McLaughlin of the Fist Congregational church at the Cumerford funeral home at 1:00 p. m. Sunday, April 15th. The body was taken to Princeville where a short service was held at the grave and she was laid to rest by the side of her husband.

The pallbearers were Walter Fast, Charles Pratt, Paul, Eric and Allen Cowell, nephews of the deceased and Robert Reeder, brother of J. L. Reeder.

Among those from a distance who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pratt, Galva: Mrs. E. C. Johnson, Hannibal, Mo.: Mrs. Henry Zang, Kewanee; Mrs. Frank Cox, Mrs. Irvin Timmons, Wyoming; Robert Reeder, Somerville, Tenn.; W. W. Fast Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. Eugene Blake, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nichols of Galva.

Mrs. Fast’s surviving relatives beside the daughter are one granddaughter Virginia Reeder, a sister Mrs. A. Crowell, and uncle, Richard Heberling, Charles Pratt and the children of Mrs. A. D. Colwell, nephews and nieces.