Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

Editor’s Note: When the new school year begins this week, Holly Prier will be at the podium ready to lead the Clear Lake High School instrumental music program. An article written by Angie Hagerty for Iowa State University’s Script & Score magazine, discusses Prier’s own high school band experience, her rise to become drum major at ISU, and life lessons she hopes to teach with music.  The following features excerpts from Hagerty’s original story, as well as comments Prier shared upon her arrival in Clear Lake.

(Above) (L-R) Jim Finstad, Chief Doug Meyers and Greg Southgate watch the sonar screen tracking the movement of the department’s new underwater drone while aboard  Fire Boat Bud.-Reporter photo by Chris Barragy.

by Marianne Gasaway

It looks like they are playing some new video game, but members of the Clear Lake Volunteer Fire Department were all business last week as they trained to operate a new remotely operated vehicle which will be used for search and rescue operations.

Connie M. Barlow, 78, of Tempe, Az., departed this life on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, at her home.

No services were held.

Connie was born on Jan. 4, 1940, in Clear Lake, to the late Pansy B. Jones, of Clear Lake.

On Sept. 9, 1958, she married Kaye Barlow and to this union five were born, Roxeanne K. Barlow, Arizona, Verne W. (Angie) Barlow, Texas, Annette S. Privilla, Arizona, Russel D. Barlow, Missouri, Allen J. (Lisa) Barlow, Kentucky.

Janice Lou Reason, 82, of Clear Lake, died Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, at Oakwood Care Center, in Clear Lake.

Funeral services were held on Monday, Aug. 19, at Clear Lake United Methodist Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. David Peterson officiating.  Burial was at the Clear Lake Cemetery.

Family suggests memorial contributions to MercyOne North Iowa Hospice or Access Incorporated of Hampton, where her grandson, Dakota, resides.