Anna May Hastings
March 18, 1934 – June 22, 2024
Anna May Hastings, 90, of Nevada, died Saturday, June 22, 2024, at her home. She was born March 18, 1934, to James LeRoy and Lydia Jane Trask Keating in Lewistown, Montana.
Anna grew up in Utica, Montana where she attended grade school and then went to high school in Hobson, Montana. On March 1, 1951, she married Herbert William Hastings and to this union, seven children were born. Anna was a homemaker. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Nevada, Missouri. Anna enjoyed spending time with her cats, fishing, reading, gardening, oil painting and traveling.
Anna is survived by seven children, Dianne Welch and husband Randy, Eldorado Springs, Herbert Hastings and wife Theresa, Helena, Montana, Heather Mann, Nevada, Paul Hastings and wife Paige, Wylie, Texas, David Hastings and wife Kathy, Lewistown, Montana, Audrey VanGordon and husband John, Butler, and Christy Gibson and significant other David Bell, Shell City; 29 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and a brother, George Keating. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Herbert Hastings on May 3, 1997; and two sisters, Margo Gagin and Barbara Twiford.
It was the wishes of Anna Hastings to be cremated with no public services at this time. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Schowengerdt Funeral Chapel (660-679-6555) in Butler, Missouri. Online condolences www.schowengerdtchapel.com.
