Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

Arnold G. Pueggel, 100, of Clear Lake died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020.

A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 2405 260th St., Garner. Arnold’s family will greet relatives and friends one hour prior to the service at the church on Wednesday.  Burial will follow in St. John’s Cemetery.

Those in attendance are asked to wear face coverings and practice social distancing.

Helen Louise Klein, age 91, of Ozark, Mo. passed away Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020.

Helen was born June 25, 1929, in Mason City, the daughter of Myron and Olive (Crouch) Baker. She was one of six children. She married Dick Grattidge, in Clear Lake, and they had six children together. She later married Ken Klein from Des Moines.

Charlotte M. Kaster, 90, of Ventura passed away Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center, in Mason City.

A memorial service for Charlotte and Dick Kaster was held on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, with Pastor Jan Tjaden officiating. Inurnment was at Concord Cemetery in Garner.

Charlotte was born April 17, 1930, the daughter of Lyle and Alma (Knop) Clapper, in Ventura. She married Dick Kaster on Nov. 19, 1948, and had two children. He preceded her in death on March 11, 2008.

(Above) Farm fire, 1995 - Clear Lake, Ventura and Mason City firefighters responded to a blaze in 1995 at the Herb Copley farm, located on Highway 18 near the Mason City Airport.  The firemen, helped by area farmers who used their tractors and machinery to create fire breaks, contained the blaze to a field which had already been harvested.  Thanks for the farmers tilling the ground, the fire was stopped less than 100 feet from unharvested corn.