Pearl G. Hasty

EVA PEARL HASTY Pearl was born on February 3, 1912 in a home located along the banks of Sinking Creek deep in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks, the daughter of CH and Laverne (Herron) Goforth. She passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2013 at the Vista Grande Inn Nursing Home in Cortez, Colo. at the age 101. Pearl was the fourth child in a family of eight. Her siblings include two sisters, Liz Randolph and Bessie Trip and five brothers, Earl, Ralph, Clifford, Virgil and Leonard Goforth. When Pearl was nine she lost her mother to cancer and became mother to the younger boys. The times were hard with no telephone, no car and no running water. They carried water from a spring which was a distance from the home. The time came when Pearl and her brothers and sisters went to live with Aunt and Uncle, Cindy and Joshua Ray Randolph. Pearl went to work at an early age, first at the state sanitarium hospital in St. Louis and later for Couples Manufacturing Company, where she worked for fourteen years. During this time Social Security was started and the management told Pearl when she filled out the paperwork they needed her real age. Management knew that she started working before she was old enough. Pearl married Lester (Dick) Hasty on July 19, 1930. Pearl and Dick had two boys, Bobby and James while in Missouri. In 1941 they moved to McElmo Canyon near Cortez, Colo. to be near Pearl's sister Bessie. After coming to Colorado, Pearl and Dick had two daughters, Donna Nielson and Wilma Kerr. After two years they moved North of Dove Creek and then two years later purchased a farm in Egnar, Colo. Dick passed away in 1959 and Pearl and the children continued to farm the land. This farm was Pearl's home until 2005 when she sold it. Pearl also ran various businesses, including a liquor store, restaurant and trailer park. She purchased the restaurant and trailer court in the early 1960's and named it the Blue Mountain Caf. Pearl always wanted her family close and included each member in of the running the businesses until she sold them. Pearl was always good with gardening and flowers. She loved her home and always wanted her yard full of flowers and a house full of her children and grandchildren. From her children Pearl was blessed with eight grandchildren, sixteen great grandchildren and fourteen great-great grandchildren. Pearl enjoyed life even when it was hard. She said she did not need to read about history because she lived it. Pearl was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters and brothers, her husband, her son-in-laws, Bill Nielson and Jack Doyel; and her sons, Bobby Hasty and James Hasty. Surviving Pearl are her children, Donna Nielson of Fort Mahave, Ariz., and Wilma Kerr and husband, Cal of Dove Creek, Colo.; her daughter-in-law, Shirley Hasty of Dove Creek, Colo.; and all of her eight grandchildren, sixteen great grandchildren and fourteen great-great grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made in Pearl Hasty's name to the Dove Creek Fire Department and the Dove Creek Volunteer Ambulance.