STEVEN HASTINGS

Funeral service for Warren Steven Hastings, 2111 Woodhaven, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel.

A commital service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Johnson Funeral Home in Whittington, Ill., with burial in Shiloh Cemetery at Whittington.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today.

Hastings, 59, died Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1996, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville.

He was born June 10, 1937, in Alexander County, Ill., son of Warren S. and Ruby Earleen Forbey Hastings. He and Patty Winemiller were married Aug. 29, 1959, in Whittington.

Hastings was reared in Villa Ridge, Ill., and was a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

He moved to Cape Girardeau in 1963. After graduating from college he joined his father and brother at Bumpa-Tel, a family-owned business.

Hastings established NPS Corp. in Perryville in 1976, and was chief executive officer and board chairman. He also had plants in Memphis, Tenn., and South Boston, Va. He was instrumental in the foam plastics recyclables industry.

He was a member of Cape Girardeau Kiwanis; TEC, an organization of CEOs; member and past board member of EPS Molder's Association; member and past president of Associated Foam Manufacturers Corp.

Hastings was a board member of Robertson Onshore Drilling Co. in Dallas, Texas, Southwest Sales, and had a partnership in HNC in Little Rock, Ark. He was a past member of Society of Plastics Industries.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Jamie Hastings of Cape Girardeau, and a brother, Lionel Hastings of Cape Girardeau.