CHARLES EDGAR GARDNER

GARDNER, GUILFORD

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 2/14/2002 at 13:10:49

Decatur County Journal
February ll, l9l5

CHARLES E. GARDNER passed to the reward of a
useful life on Wednesday
morning, February 3, l9l5, at 9 o'clock a.m.,
at his home in south Leon.

CHARLES E. GARDNER was born in Leon, Iowa,
March 2, l860, and was the
only child of DR. R.D. and A.E. GARDNER. He
was married to CARRIE
GUILFORD at Toledo, Iowa, March l5, l883,
who, with his aged mother
survive him, his father having died
September, l9l2.

"CHARLIE" as he was known to all, lived and
spent his entire life in
Leon; attending the Leon High School until
fifteen years of age, at
which time he entered the employ of the
Farmers & Traders Bank and
remained with said bank until about the year
l885, when the Exchange
Bank was organized with him as one of the
stockholders, and for ten
years he was one of the valued employees
therein. For the past few
years he has given his time to the care and
control of his father's
business, with the exception of about two
years spent in the employ of
the Farmers and Traders State Bank, at which
time he was credited with
being one of the most proficient banking men
in the county.

The passing of a man of the high character
and devotion of CHARLIE
GARDNER is worthy of more than a passing
note. His life has been one of
care and protection of those he loved,
faithfully performing his duty as
he saw it, always, jovial, pleasant and
agreeable, enjoying the company
of the old as well as young, always ready to
lend a helping hand to
those in distress. A man of strict
conscientious business scruples, of
just principles and thoroughly imbued with
the feeling of man's duty to
his fellowmen, he held a high place in the
estimation of all who knew
him.

No words of praise can reach the true point
of his excellence, and it is
but just to give him the merit due him in
saying he lived and died an
honest, conscientious man, a loving son and a
devoted husband, and, no
higher encomium can be placed on the memory
of any man. In his passing
it can be truly said the entire city mourns.

The funeral services conducted by Rev.
Cornell, of Van Wert, were held
at the home on Friday morning at l0 o'clock,
and many beautiful floral
pieces were placed upon the casket as a
tribute to the esteem in which
he was held by his friends.

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February l2, 2002