Obituary - Wilbur H. Bud Hastin

Wilbur H. Bud Hastin 

WILBUR H. BUD HASTIN, age 78, PASSED AWAY ON JULY 27, 2017 AT HIS HOME IN FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA. MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD IN BUTLER, MISSOURI AT THE SCHOWENGERDT FUNERAL CHAPEL, 2:00 P.M. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2017 FOLLOWED BY INURNMENT AT THE OAK HILL CEMETERY IN BUTLER. 

BUD’S WISHES WERE TO BE CREMATED. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SCHOWENGERDT FUNERAL CHAPEL OF BUTLER, MISSOURI. ONLINE CONDOLENCES MAY BE SENT TO www.schowengerdtchapel.com

BUD WAS A CHRISTIAN & WAS BORN APRIL 24, 1939 AND RAISED IN BUTLER, MISSOURI, TO LOVING PARENTS OF WILBUR & VELMA HASTIN. HE GRADUATED FROM BUTLER HIGH SCHOOL IN 1957. HIS FATHER WAS AN AUTOMOBILE DEALER & TAUGHT BUD MANY OF THE THINGS HE WOULD NEED IN HIS LIFE. AFTER FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL HE JOINED THE U.S. AIR FORCE AND BECAME A FIREMAN IN OKINAWA. HE LIVED MOST OF HIS LIFE IN FLORIDA. BUD WAS A SUCCESSFUL & RENOWNED COLLECTOR, SELF-PUBLISHER, ENTREPRENEUR, AND WORLD TRAVELER, HAVING TRAVELED TO OVER 217 COUNTRIES. HE ESTABLISHED A SUCCESSFUL GLASS BUSINESS IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA FOR MANY YEARS PRIOR TO HIS PUBLISHING BUSINESS. 

BUD WROTE, PHOTOGRAPHED, RESEARCHED, AND PUBLISHED OVER 815,000 BOOKS ON AVON COLLECTING IN 1971, WHEN AVON COLLECTING REALLY STARTED TO TAKE OFF. HE THEN STARTED THE BUD HASTIN AVON COLLECTOR’S CLUB. HE CREATED THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AVON COLLECTORS (NAAC). BUD CREATED AND SOLD THE IDEA OF A NATIONAL AVON COLLECTOR’S CLUB BOTTLE SERIES. BUD CREATED COLOGNE-FILLED BIRD AND ANIMAL BOTTLES UNDER THE NAME OF COLLECTOR’S ART ™. THIS IS WHEN HE STARTED DOING BUSINESS IN JAPAN MAKING FINE DETAILED HAND-PAINTED, LIMITED EDITION PORCELAIN BOTTLES. BUD PRODUCED A MOVIE CALLED, "VENGEANCE." HE ALSO INVENTED, PRODUCED & PATENTED THE WATER SAVER DEVICE. BUD LEFT HIS HOME IN KANSAS CITY IN 1979 AND MOVED TO FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA IN 1981, HE MOVED TO LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, AND RETURNED TO FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA IN 1988, WHERE HE & HIS WIFE, SANDRA HITCHCOCK-HASTIN RESIDED. THEY WERE MARRIED IN MAUI, HAWAII, IN 1992. 

BUD WAS THE FATHER OF ROXANNE AND STEPHANIE HASTIN PRIOR TO HIS MARRIAGE TO SANDRA. HE HAS THREE GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT GRAND-DAUGHTER. ALSO SURVIVING ARE MANY NEPHEWS AND NIECES AND MANY FRIENDS. BUD WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND TWO SISTERS, JANICE FURMAN AND SHIRLEY SAATHOFF. BUD AND WIFE SANDRA RESIDED IN FT. LAUDERDALE FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS, WHERE BUD BUILT THEIR HOME FROM WHICH HE RECEIVED 1ST PLACE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM THE CITY OF FT. LAUDERDALE FOR HIS RESIDENCE/LANDSCAPING IN 1992. 

BUD’S PASSION WAS WORLD-WIDE TRAVEL FAVORING THE GREEK ISLANDS WHERE THEY TRAVELED YEARLY FOR THE ADVENTURE & BEAUTY, TO THE LOVE OF THE MOST RECENT ADVENTURE OF CLIMBING THE BEAUTIFUL POTALA PALACE IN TIBET. THE ANTIQUITIES IN EGYPT WERE FASCINATING TO HIM, ALONG WITH THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES IN ISREAL. 

BUD WILL BE REMEMBERED AS SUCCESSFUL, DETERMINED, ADVENTUROUS, HONEST, LOYAL AND AN ENTREPRENEUR AT HEART. HE MADE HIS PRESENCE KNOWN & EVERYONE REMEMBERED HIM. EVERYONE LOVED HIS STORY TELLING. HE HAD A TREMENDOUS SENSE OF HUMOR. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE, BUD WOULD SAY, WAS TO ALWAYS BE HONEST AND BE SELF-RELIANT. 

BUD WILL ALSO BE REMEMBERED AS “THE FLASH,” FOR HIS STYLISH, BRIGHT COLORED ATTIRE, AND HIS GIFT FOR CONVERSATION, WITH TRULY PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HE HAD AN INCREDIBLE EYE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY & TOOK BEAUTIFUL PICTURES OF HIS WORLDLY TRAVELS DISPLAYED IN THEIR HOME. HE ALSO HAD A LOVE FOR BOATS & CARS OVER THE YEARS AND HAD MANY, INCLUDING A ROLLS ROYCE. BUD HAD SUCH STRONG STRENGTH OF CHARACTER AND WAS A BORN “HANDS ON MAN” LEADER IN EVERYTHING HE DID IN HIS LIFE. THOSE WHOM HAVE ENCOUNTERED BUD HASTIN OVER THE MANY YEARS WILL HAVE TO SAY HOW MUCH HE WILL BE MISSED, BUT MOST OF ALL REMEMBERED FOR ALL HIS STORIES AND OPINIONS, AND HIS WONDERFUL SENSE OF HUMOR, WHICH ARE NOW ONLY TO HIS MEMORY. GOOGLE HIS NAME AND YOU WILL SEE MORE ABOUT BUD HASTIN.

IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, THE FAMILY ASKS FOR DONATIONS TO BE MADE TO THE FOLLOWING:

American Cancer Society or

THE FOUNDATION FOR END OF LIFE CARE AT:
www.foundationeolc.org
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