Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

Raymond “Andy” Truman Andrews, Jr., 86, of Clear Lake, died Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, at Oakwood Care Center, in Clear Lake.

A private funeral service will be held in the near future at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 310 1st Ave. N., Clear Lake, with Pastor David Peterson officiating. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery, in Mason City. A recording of Andy’s funeral will be available on his tribute page at www.colonialchapels.com.

A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

Susan Dianne (Jurgenson) Pals, 76, of Clear Lake, formerly of Meservey, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, at Mayo Clinic Hospital, St. Mary’s Campus, in Rochester, Minn. 

Visitation will be held from 4-7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, at the Sietsema Vogel Funeral Home, in Hampton.  Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, attendance at the visitation will be limited to 15 indoors and 30 outdoors at all times. 

(Above) The former Sunset Elementary School, located at 408 Mars Hill Drive, has sat empty for two years.  In the fall, Clear Lake Classical, a private Christian school, plans to move students into the building, which will be known as its Mars Hill campus.-Reporter photo.

by Marianne Gasaway 

The former Sunset Elementary School will again be an educational center.

Even though Santa isn’t sitting down with visitors in his Clear Lake house, there’s still a way for kids to get their Christmas wishes to the Jolly Old Elf.  Thanks to many helpers, Santa now has a new mailbox at City Park and all letters will receive an answer.