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G. Howard Ruggles was a community pillar in Forest Lake, the owner of two long-running businesses and a former Forest Lake City Council member.broadstreet.zone(48036);
During parts of five decades, G. Howard Ruggles was a fixture in the Forest Lake business community. He spent the better part of four decades running a sporting goods store and a hardware store while becoming deeply involved in community affairs.
It may not have been that way had Ruggles elected to put his college education to work and not return to the only place he ever called home.
Ruggles, who died on Sunday, April 9, at age 84, was far more than a business owner. A native of Forest Lake, Ruggles lived most of his life here, short of four years at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter and four years in the military, including two years of his service and two years in California as a
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