Peggy Ann Gast

Peggy Ann Gast passed away on Friday, March 6, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on February 14, 1937, to the late Maurice Nelson and Mary Boriska, she grew up on the family farm in Ravenna, Ohio. She spent her married years in Utica and Southfield, Michigan, before retiring in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Peggy possessed a remarkable artistic talent that found expression through oil painting, wood crafts, sewing, making curtains, crocheting, quilting, and reupholstering furniture. She tended a beautiful flower garden with great care and was a gifted cook and baker whose homemade chocolates were eagerly anticipated by family and friends each Christmas. Her nurturing spirit, compassion, and witty sense of humor left a lasting impression on everyone who knew her.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard A. Gast. Peggy is survived by her daughter Linda Shoop (Bill), son David Gast (Caren), and daughter Elaine Holeman (David), her sisters Patti May and Phyllis Bakos, her grandchildren Betsy Gast, Emily Finta, Nelson Gast (Eun Young), Alexandra Bates (Dalton), Mallory Finta, Aspen Holeman, and R. Mason Holeman, and her great-granddaughter Alyssa Bates.