DESCENDANT OF MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS: Mr. and Mrs. William Brewster (probable), Richard Warren, Francis Cooke and John Cooke
3G GRANDDAUGHTER OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO CHRISTIAN FAST
FAMILY TRADITION SAYS SHE IS RELATED TO THE POET ROBERT BURNS
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A BIOGRAPHY OF MARY LOU FAST OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire, genealogist and family historian, updated June 2020:
A descendant of several Mayflower passengers and Revolutionary War hero Christian Fast, Mary Louise was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on February 16, 1925, to Irl and Anna Mary (Shriver) Fast.
She graduated from Cleveland Heights High School and from Ohio Wesleyan in 1947. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
On June 27, 1945, she married U.S. Navy Ensign Ray E. Overmire Jr., who a month before had survived kamikaze attacks on the USS Bunker Hill off Okinawa. Ray served as executive director of the Lorain Family Y for many years.
Mary Lou taught home economics at Lorain High. She was active in church and civic affairs, serving as president of many organizations including the Lorain branch of American Association of University Women, Lakeland Women's Club, Lorain Wimodasis Club, Lorain Y-Wives and the Bristol Village Women's Club.
She was a member of Northminster United Presbyterian Church in Lorain and Grace United Methodist Church in Waverly.
She loved cats, enjoyed crafts and playing bridge and was an excellent seamstress who designed and made her own clothes.
Mary Lou, like her mother, suffered from Alzheimer's for the last several years of her life and passed away on January 26, 2008, in Waverly, Ohio.
3G GRANDDAUGHTER OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO CHRISTIAN FAST
FAMILY TRADITION SAYS SHE IS RELATED TO THE POET ROBERT BURNS
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A BIOGRAPHY OF MARY LOU FAST OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire, genealogist and family historian, updated June 2020:
A descendant of several Mayflower passengers and Revolutionary War hero Christian Fast, Mary Louise was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on February 16, 1925, to Irl and Anna Mary (Shriver) Fast.
She graduated from Cleveland Heights High School and from Ohio Wesleyan in 1947. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
On June 27, 1945, she married U.S. Navy Ensign Ray E. Overmire Jr., who a month before had survived kamikaze attacks on the USS Bunker Hill off Okinawa. Ray served as executive director of the Lorain Family Y for many years.
Mary Lou taught home economics at Lorain High. She was active in church and civic affairs, serving as president of many organizations including the Lorain branch of American Association of University Women, Lakeland Women's Club, Lorain Wimodasis Club, Lorain Y-Wives and the Bristol Village Women's Club.
She was a member of Northminster United Presbyterian Church in Lorain and Grace United Methodist Church in Waverly.
She loved cats, enjoyed crafts and playing bridge and was an excellent seamstress who designed and made her own clothes.
Mary Lou, like her mother, suffered from Alzheimer's for the last several years of her life and passed away on January 26, 2008, in Waverly, Ohio.
DESCENDANT OF MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS: Mr. and Mrs. William Brewster (probable), Richard Warren, Francis Cooke and John Cooke
3G GRANDDAUGHTER OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO CHRISTIAN FAST
FAMILY TRADITION SAYS SHE IS RELATED TO THE POET ROBERT BURNS
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A BIOGRAPHY OF MARY LOU FAST OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire, genealogist and family historian, updated June 2020:
A descendant of several Mayflower passengers and Revolutionary War hero Christian Fast, Mary Louise was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on February 16, 1925, to Irl and Anna Mary (Shriver) Fast.
She graduated from Cleveland Heights High School and from Ohio Wesleyan in 1947. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
On June 27, 1945, she married U.S. Navy Ensign Ray E. Overmire Jr., who a month before had survived kamikaze attacks on the USS Bunker Hill off Okinawa. Ray served as executive director of the Lorain Family Y for many years.
Mary Lou taught home economics at Lorain High. She was active in church and civic affairs, serving as president of many organizations including the Lorain branch of American Association of University Women, Lakeland Women's Club, Lorain Wimodasis Club, Lorain Y-Wives and the Bristol Village Women's Club.
She was a member of Northminster United Presbyterian Church in Lorain and Grace United Methodist Church in Waverly.
She loved cats, enjoyed crafts and playing bridge and was an excellent seamstress who designed and made her own clothes.
Mary Lou, like her mother, suffered from Alzheimer's for the last several years of her life and passed away on January 26, 2008, in Waverly, Ohio.
3G GRANDDAUGHTER OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO CHRISTIAN FAST
FAMILY TRADITION SAYS SHE IS RELATED TO THE POET ROBERT BURNS
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A BIOGRAPHY OF MARY LOU FAST OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire, genealogist and family historian, updated June 2020:
A descendant of several Mayflower passengers and Revolutionary War hero Christian Fast, Mary Louise was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on February 16, 1925, to Irl and Anna Mary (Shriver) Fast.
She graduated from Cleveland Heights High School and from Ohio Wesleyan in 1947. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
On June 27, 1945, she married U.S. Navy Ensign Ray E. Overmire Jr., who a month before had survived kamikaze attacks on the USS Bunker Hill off Okinawa. Ray served as executive director of the Lorain Family Y for many years.
Mary Lou taught home economics at Lorain High. She was active in church and civic affairs, serving as president of many organizations including the Lorain branch of American Association of University Women, Lakeland Women's Club, Lorain Wimodasis Club, Lorain Y-Wives and the Bristol Village Women's Club.
She was a member of Northminster United Presbyterian Church in Lorain and Grace United Methodist Church in Waverly.
She loved cats, enjoyed crafts and playing bridge and was an excellent seamstress who designed and made her own clothes.
Mary Lou, like her mother, suffered from Alzheimer's for the last several years of her life and passed away on January 26, 2008, in Waverly, Ohio.
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