GARDNER, Clarence 1884-1967

GARDNER, BUCK, MIESTER, FLUGGE, QUAIL, WILLARD, NASS

Posted By: Julie Farland (email)
Date: 2/28/2004 at 20:16:04

February 15, 1967
The Progress Review
2-Time Gold Star Father, Clarence Gardner Buried Sat.

Clarence Gardner, a two-time gold star father and long time LaPorte City resident, was buried Saturday following his death last Wednesday of pneumonia. He was 83.

Services were conducted at the Johannsen-Rossow Funeral home with Rev. Paul Huffman of Wesleyan Methodist Church officiating. Burial was in Westview Cemetery.

Mr Gardner was among the first LaPorte City residents to lose a member of his family in World War II. Ralph and Russell Gardner died in early June, 1942, when the Destroyer Sims was sunk by the Japanese in the Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific.

Mr Gardner was born Oct. 6, 1884, the son of Mary and Charles Gardner in Cherokee County, Iowa. He was a carpenter and farmed in the LaPorte City area most of his life. The past few years he made his home with Mr and Mrs Donald Gates in LaPorte city.

Mr Gardner was preceded in death by five sons and three daughters, his parents, four brothers and one sister. He is survived by three sons: Rolland, Roger, and Richard, all of Waterloo; six daughters: Mrs Harold Flugge of Haugen, Wis., Mrs Homer Buck of Ruthven, Mrs Huber Miester of Independence, Mrs Robert Quail of Waterloo, Mrs Virgil Willard, Mrs Loren Nass, all of Waterloo; 34 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Serving as pallbearers for the funeral service were Joseph Vopelak, Ralph Foss, John Miller, Lloyd Parks, Roland Foster and Dale Hild.