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GARDNER, William Albert "Will"

GARDNER, PITMAN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/3/2016 at 10:24:06

Obituary ~ William Albert "Will" Gardner
August 11, 1862 ~ December 04, 1915

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
December 09, 1915

William A. Gardner, son of John W. and Mary Gardner, was born on the home farm near Leon, Iowa, August 11, 1862, and departed this life December 4, 1915, aged 53 years, four months and 23 days.

On January 31, 1889, he was married at Humeston, Iowa, to Miss Orra Pitman, and to this union were born six children, five of whom, with their mother, survive him. In early manhood the deceased as a clerk for and later a partner with is brother, Frank Gardner, in the grocery business in this city. Later he farmed the Gardner home place for several years, returning to town in 1908 and again taking up mercantile life.

In November 1912, he was elected Recorder of Decatur county and was serving his second term at the time of his death. Besides the sorrowing wife and children, he leaves one sister, Mrs. Anna Curry, of this city, one brother, George O. Gardner, of Humeston, a little granddaughter, Mila, to whom he was devotedly attached, and a large number of other relatives and friends who sincerely mourn his passing.

[Interment was made at Leon Cemetery, Leon, Iowa.]

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2016


 

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