KASTER, Lois P.

KASTER, PAUL, DAWSON

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/17/2013 at 12:48:36

LOIS P. KASTER

VENTURA -Lois P. Kaster, 90, of 307 Sixth St. S.E., Mason City, formerly of Ventura, died Friday (Jan. 14, 2000) at the Mason City Homestead Assisted Living Residence.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Ventura United Methodist Church with the Rev. Paul Hasel officiating. Interment will be in Clear Lake Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake. The family suggests that memorials be directed to the Lois P. Kaster Memorial Fund.

Lois was born Jan. 10, 1910, in Clear Lake, the daughter of Charles Chester and Ida (Paul) Dawson. She graduated from Clear Lake High School.

Lois married Harold “Tuffy” Kaster June 5, 1928. They later established Kaster’s Cove, Ventura, which they owned and operated until her husband's death in 1976. After her daughter's death in 1986, she moved to Mason City to be by her brother Milton Dawson.

Lois enjoyed politics, traveling and going out to dinner with her friends.

Lois is survived by a nephew, Merrill Dawson, and his wife, Phyllis, and their family, Belleville, Ill, and also several cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harold in 1976; a daughter, Patricia in 1986; two brothers, Milton and Max Dawson; and two sisters, Violet and Mary Dawson.