GARBER, Frank W.

GARBER, MERRILL, GASSETT, WHITE, CURTRIGHT, VANHORN, ROMAS, LAYMON, SWISHER, PATTERSON, HORN, CALHOUN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/23/2015 at 09:23:16

Obituary ~ Frank W. Garber
1885 ~ 1977

Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

FRANK W. GARBER, 92, was born Aug. 25, 1885 in Creston, Iowa. On March 4, 1906, he married GRACIE MERRILL, who died April 26, 1948. On Jan. 1950, he married HELEN GASSETT.

He filed on a homestead north-west of Cheyenne in January 1910 and bought his family to Wyoming July 10, of the same year. He was ordained to the Gospel Ministry October, 1945, and was instrumental in establishing the Cheyenne Brethren Church, completed in the spring of 1949.

He is survived by his widow, HELEN; three sons, OSA BRIAN GARBER, Yuma, Ariz.; FRANCIS OLIVER GARBER, Windsor, Colo.; and WALTER GARBER, Santa Maria, Calif.; two daughters Mrs. KENNETH WHITE and Mrs. ALBERT CURTRIGHT, both of Cheyenne; LESTER GASSETT, VERLA VANHORN and MARJORIE ROMAS, all of Cheyenne, and LOUIS LAYMON, Whitmour, Calif.; 21 grandchildren; eight step grandchildren; 62 great grandchildren; four sisters-in-law, LULA SWISHER, Ofallon, Ill.; LENA PATTERSON, Three Rivers, Mich., GRACE HORN and NINA CALHOUN, Leon, Iowa.

Transcription by Sara Rose Joan LeFleur