Tina Plett Fast

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TINA PLETT FAST

On May 1, 2014, Tina Plett Fast died peacefully at Bethesda Hospital in Steinbach. She lived a full and rich life, proudly reaching the age of 90 years. She will be greatly missed by her family; she was a wonderful sister, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Tina was born on November 14, 1923 in Greenland, Manitoba to Elizabeth and Abram R. Plett, the fourth of twelve children. She had a happy childhood and enjoyed her school days and her years as a girl working at home. She met and fell in love with Wilbert Fast in her teens, but then waited six years for him to propose. They were married on May 18, 1947. Together they set up their first household on Platte Hoff, where many of Mom's extended family, including her grandparents, lived. With little money and a growing family, Mom and Dad purchased their first home on the main road through Blumenort. She enjoyed living on Quellen Colony in Mexico where Mom and Dad and their young children spent three years, living next door to her parents. After they moved back to Blumenort, they were able to move back into the same house they had left when they moved to Mexico. It was a small house and she was very happy to have a big new house to move into on Oakdale Drive.

Her tasks were set out for her; raising her children, feeding and clothing them, and being a part of an extended family and community kept her occupied. She was always sewing,baking or working in her garden, it seemed. But still there was time for other things she loved: church, making blankets for MCC at Neiverein, going for rides, visiting, planning house renovations. For Mom, the essence of life was the living of it which she did well.

Tina was predeceased by her husband Wilbert J. Fast, daughter Frances and son Harold, her parents Abram R. and Elizabeth Plett, her sisters Nettie and Lisa and her brothers Henry, Jake, and Cornelius. She is survived by three sisters, Esther Petkau, Freda Schroeder, Mary Friesen, three brothers, Thomas, Nick and Abe, in-laws Marie Plett and Erwin Friesen as well as Wilbert’s family, his siblings, Eva Fast, Agatha Grant, and Edmar Fast, his in-laws, Virgina Fast, Eric Toews and Chris Grant, and her many nieces and nephews.

She is deeply mourned by her children, Viola (Bob), daughter-in-law Alfrieda, Rosabel, Emily (Allen), Lesley (Marianne), Merle (Ted), Julene (Rick), Kerry, Douglas (Dawna); her grandchildren, Jordan, Emma, Anicka, John, Kara, Jeremy, Karin, Martin, Stephanie, Mary Jane, Adam, Hans, Emmaly, Bronwyn, Alex, Katherine, Cressida, Joseph, Ingrid, Thomas, Ciaran, Irian; and her great grandchildren, Leslie, Liesl, Anne-Sophie, Nora, Maika, Moses, and Stephanie.

Funeral service will be held Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. at Blumenort Evangelical Mennonite Church with burial at the church cemetery prior to the service.

Viewing will be held Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 7-9:00 p.m. at Birchwood Funeral Chapel, Steinbach, MB.

Arrangements by
BIRCHWOOD FUNERAL CHAPEL
1-204-346-1030 OR 1-888-454-1030

As published in The Carillon on May 06, 2014