Gertie Mast

GERTIE E MAST, 96, of Cadwell, IL passed away at 7:10 A.M. on Saturday, September 7, 2019 at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon, IL.

Visitation will be held anytime after 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, September 8, 2019 at the Otto Center in rural Arthur, IL.  Funeral services will be held at 9:00 A.M. on Monday, September 9, 2019 at the Otto Center.   Bishop Harvey Chupp will officiate.   Burial will be in the Otto Cemetery.   The Edwards Funeral Home is assisting with arrangements.

Gertie was born on August 26, 1923 in Arthur, IL.  She was a daughter of Eli J. and Amanda (Mast) Schrock.   She married Daniel M. Mast on March 8, 1945 in Arthur, IL.   He passed away on March 13, 2012.

She is survived by three sons, Glen Mast and his wife Sue of Arthur, Harold Mast and his wife Betty and Willis Mast all of Cadwell; ten grandchildren and twenty-three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, six sisters and one brother, Lydia (Emery) Gingerich, Sovilla (George) Kauffman, Sadie (Simon) Gingerich, Levi (Clara) Schrock, Rebecca (Jeff) Miller, Amanda (Marx) Miller and Edna (Levi) Herschberger.

Gertie was a member of the Old Order Amish Church