LUGAR, Givens "Buddy" 1947 - 2006

LUGAR, WARD, BARBER, MILLER, WHEELER, OUVERSON

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 5/15/2015 at 00:52:52

Givens ‘Buddy’ C. Lugar

MASON CITY — Givens “Buddy” C. Lugar, 58, 516 Carolina Ave. S., Mason City, died Saturday (May 20, 2006) at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 24, at the United Methodist Church, 508 Second Ave. N., Clear Lake, with the Rev. Keith Scott officiating. Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Highway 122 East, Mason City, with military honors by the Clear Lake Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 4868 of Clear Lake.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake. Visitation will also be one hour prior to service time on Wednesday at the church.

The family of Givens “Buddy” C. Lugar has requested that memorial contributions be made to the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit or to the Mercy Cancer Center in Mason City in his memory.

Givens C. Lugar was born on Aug. 10, 1947, in Mason City, the son of Dorsie Conrad and Norma Genell (Ward) Lugar. He attended and received his education in the Clear Lake school system, graduating from Clear Lake High School in 1966.

He was inducted into the U.S. Air Force on Sept. 27, 1966, in Des Moines, and served overseas in Thailand during the Vietnam conflict, and was honorably discharged on Sept. 25, 1970, at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.

After serving his country honorably, Buddy returned to the Clear Lake area and began working for Life Time Motor Homes in Mason City until its closing when he started working for Schneider Metals, which is now called IMI Cornelius, and continued to work for them for 33 years and continued to be employed with them at the time of his death.

Buddy enjoyed dancing, plants, coin and rock collecting, collecting state quarters for his grandchildren, riding his bike, Jumbles puzzles, being a Roady with the Harry O Experience, and visiting with his friends at the Pro’s Sandwich Shop in Mason City, but his great love and enjoyment were his family and grandchildren.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Clear Lake, life member of VFW Post No. 4868, Clear Lake, and the Moose Lodge in Mason City.

Left to cherish his memory are his children, Dawn Barber and her husband, Dennis, of Fond Du Lac, Wis., Denise Miller of Mason City, and Justin Lugar and his wife, Kelly, of Garner; five grandchildren, Tyler Miller, Bria Miller, Charles Barber, Alayna Barber and expectant Lugar grandchild; a brother, James Lugar, of Austin, Minn.; two sisters, Marilea Wheeler of Clear Lake and Sara Ouverson and her husband, Dennis, of Clear Lake; special friends at Pro’s Sandwich Shop in Mason City; Earl Strait of Mason City; Dorothy Bohl of Mason City; and special dogs, Toby and Luke; as well as other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Daniel Curtis Lugar.