Ervin I. Fast

Ervin I. Fast, was born November 26, 1925, on the family farm in Carson Township, Minnesota. Ervin lived within 2 miles of his birthplace his entire life. He attended country school where he would drive the horse and wagon and collect all the neighbor kids on their way to school. After the school the horse would head non-stop straight for the barn leaving the kids to bail out of the wagon at the corner or end up in the barn with the horses. He later graduated from Bingham Lake high School. Ervin married Marilyn Fuller at the Bethel Mennonite church in Mountain Lake, MN, on June 5, 1956, and they resided on the family farm in Carson Township where they raised 4 children. On the farm they engaged in raising corn, beans, alfalfa, pigs, chickens and milking cows. The kids swear some years the best crop was the rocks they picked. In 1960, Ervin received a Young Farmers Award and he served on the Delft Cooperative Elevator Board. Ervin served on the Mountain Lake School board from 1962 to 1979 and the Good Samaritan Board from 1984 to 2006 Ervin was a lifelong member of the Bethel Mennonite Church and helped as Sunday School Superintendent and teacher. In his spare time, he enjoyed tinkering around the farm and welding. Always on a new project Ervin enjoyed seeing his own designs built. He didn't like to travel much and stayed pretty close to his cows but, in the last few years he was a regular at the McDonald's restaurant in Windom and occasionally Hardee's where he enjoyed meeting old and new friends. Ervin, age 90, passed away April, 20th, 2016, at home after a long battle with cancer. Ervin is survived by his wife, Marilyn of Mountain Lake, children Ruth (Brent) Weckwerth of Richland Center, WI, Thomas (Marilyn) Fast of Bingham Lake, Charles (Suzanne) Fast of Bingham Lake, and Rodney (Sheryl) Fast of Mountain Lake, MN., grandchildren Katie (Daniel) Vick of Idabel, OK, Karina Fast of Sioux City, IA, , Josh Fast, Andrew Fast, Aaron Fast and Anika Fast all of Mountain Lake, Christopher Fast of Young America, Chelsey (Patrick) Janzen and family of Mankato, Jeremy Fast of Weihei, China, Mitchell Fast of New Brighton, Kaitlyn Fast, one sister, Mary Schmidt of Buhler, KS, and one brother Marlyn of Elkhart, IN. Ervin was preceded in death by his parents, Isaac and Tina Fast, brothers Peter and Albert, and sisters Ardella and Rosella Fast and Luella Penner, several brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law and a niece. Visitation 1 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Sturm Funeral Home, Mountain Lake Chapel 420 - 10th St. N. Mtn. Lake, Minnesota, United States 56159 Service Information 11:00 am Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Bethel Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, Minnesota 301 N 9th St Mountain Lake, Minnesota, United States 56159 Interment Information Voth Cemetery N side of 360th St, between 500th & 510th Av (W of Co 2, S/E of Rat Lk) Rural Delft, Minnesota, United States 56101 Fellowship Following services in the church lower level.