LUKER, Larry Ray

LUKER, HUMPHREY, MASTRE, NONWEILER, SATERN, WAGNER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/17/2013 at 12:59:15

LARRY RAY LUKER

CLEAR LAKE — Larry Ray Luker, 67, 1104 Fifth Ave S., Clear Lake, died Monday (Nov. 7, 2005) at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City.

A funeral service will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Zion Lutheran Church, 112 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake, with the Rev. Derrick Yarian and Richard Scott, lay assistant, officiating. Interment will be at the Clear Lake Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake. Memorials may be given to the Larry Luker Memorial Fund.

Larry was born Jan. 28, 1938, at Mason City, the son of Fred and Evelyn (Humphrey) Luker. He graduated from Fertile High School in 1956, and attended Iowa State University in Ames.

Larry married Marian Mastre on April 13, 1958, in Fertile Lutheran Church. He sold life insurance for Circle Key Life Co. He started buying and remodeling houses in Clear Lake. He built, owned and operated Shiloh I and II Apartments. He also owned and operated Luker 106 Car Wash. In 1993, in partnership with his son, Todd, he built Luker’s All American Storage.

In 2000, he retired, enjoying spending the winter with his wife in Texas. He loved fishing, hunting (which included cleaning deer in the Nonnweiler meatlocker), gardening and landscaping. He enjoyed spending time with his family.

His love and commitment to Clear Lake covered many areas: councilman on the Clear Lake City Council, EDC, Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, he volunteered his services to the community and for many years was in charge of the fireworks during the Fourth of July and Christmas by the Lake. Clear Lake honored his service when he was the Grand Marshal of the Fourth of July Parade in 2004. Even in death, Larry was giving back to people as a bone, eye and tissue donor through the Iowa Donor Network.

Larry was a member of Zion Lutheran Church and the EDC and a member of the Clear Lake Noon Lions Club for more than 25 years.

Larry is survived by his wife, Marian Luker, of Clear Lake; four children, Jill Nonnweiler and her husband, Dan, of Mason City, Jody Satern and her husband, Gene, of League City, Texas, Joyce Wagner and her husband, Bob, of Ventura, and Todd Luker and his wife, Lisa, of Clear Lake; his father and stepmother, Fred and Judy Luker of Clear Lake; his brother, Neal Luker and his wife, Jane, of Fulton, Ill.; nine grandchildren, Jeff Nonnweiler and his fiancee, Tiffany Thies, of Waverly, Kaley Nonnweiler of Cedar Falls, Jacob Nonnweiler of Mason City, Jonathan Satern and his wife, Argelia, of League City, Texas, Lindsey Satern of Denton, Texas, Robert and Ryan Wagner of Ventura, Hadley and Henry Luker, and Moonie the Dog that loved Grandpa, of Clear Lake.

Larry was preceded in death by his mother, Evelyn Luker.