{"id":72215,"date":"2020-01-24T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=72215"},"modified":"2020-01-23T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T19:47:16","slug":"bast-casey-age-45-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2020\/01\/bast-casey-age-45-atwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Bast, Casey (Age 45, Atwood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-72218\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2020\/01\/b210185e-bast-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Casey Ray BAST<\/strong>\u00a0of Atwood,\u00a0 suddenly on Monday, in his 46th year. Husband of Kelly (Hooper) Bast of Atwood. Father of Noah Hooper of Huntsville, and Ethan Bast of Atwood. Son of Ken and Laura (Maitland) Bast of Waterloo, and grandson of Lydia Maitland of New Hamburg. Brother of Meghan and David Shory of Toronto, son-in-law of Bob Hooper of Collingwood, and brother-in-law of Cindy and Tom McKee of Collingwood, and Mike Hooper of Thornbury. Loved also by his aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews. Predeceased by his grandparents Ervin and Emmeline Bast, and Malcolm Maitland, mother-in-law Doreen Hooper, and brother-in-law Marc Hooper.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nCasey lived life to the fullest.\u00a0 He had a kind spirit, a presence and zest for life that will be deeply missed.\u00a0 His great sense of humour and warm smile endeared him to many. If you were his friend, you had a &#8220;buddy&#8221;!<br \/>\nCasey loved being on the water, snow skiing, Nascar, big bonfires, and down to earth, genuine people.\u00a0 He loved wide open spaces and freedom. He hated line ups, traffic jams, bureaucracy, and anything that confined him or slowed him down.\u00a0 His spirit could not be corralled, and although he is gone, his spirit lives on. Casey worked in the automotive industry for many years, most recently at SWS Watersports in Minett.<br \/>\nIn true Casey style, a casual celebration of his life will be held at the Listowel Golf Club on Monday, January 27<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 5 until 8 PM, with words of remembrance at 6:30 PM.<\/span><br \/>\nMemorial donations to the Atwood Lion\u2019s Club, or Huntsville Hospital would be appreciated.\u00a0 Arrangements entrusted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca\/\"><b>Eaton Funeral Home<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Listowel. Online condolences are available.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casey Ray BAST\u00a0of Atwood,\u00a0 suddenly on Monday, in his 46th year. Husband of Kelly (Hooper) Bast of Atwood. Father of Noah Hooper of Huntsville, and Ethan Bast of Atwood. Son of Ken and Laura (Maitland) Bast of Waterloo, and grandson of Lydia Maitland of New Hamburg. Brother of Meghan and David Shory of Toronto, son-in-law","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3204,5,7],"class_list":["post-72215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-casey-bast","tag-eaton-funeral-home","tag-listowel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 10:09:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2020\/01\/bast-casey-age-45-atwood\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72219,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215\/revisions\/72219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}