George W. Gardner (1932)

DUNCAN, GARDNER, NEIGHBOR

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 5/28/2006 at 15:22:05

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 3, 1932

Death of George Gardner

George Gardner, Civil war veteran of Winterset, died at the local hospital about 12:30 Tuesday morning, November first, after a short illness with plural pneumonia. Mr. Gardner was 86 years of age, and had lived here since the Civil war. He became ill last week, and was taken to the Winterset hospital, on Friday.

The Rev. R.C. Cully, pastor of the Presbyterian church, conducted his funeral services, which were held at Tidrick’s funeral home, Wednesday afternoon, November 2, at 2 o’clock. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.

Mr. Gardner was born in Belmont county, Ohio, September 3, 1846. He served eighteen months, in the Civil war in Company A, 5th Ohio regiment, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. Soon after the war, he came to Winterset, and here he was married to Mary Jane Duncan, April 25, 1888. They were the parents of three children, Mrs. Milo Neighbor of Mason City, and Mabel who died at the age of 14 years and Dotty who died in infancy. Mrs. Gardner died January 11, 1924. Mr. Gardner was a member of Pitzer Post G.A.R. and other local organizations.

The daughter, Arnetta Neighbor survives him. He also leaves two grandsons, Jack and Charles Neighbor.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 3, 1932
Page 1, Column 2

GEO. GARNDER DIES – SERVICES WEDNESDAY

George W. Gardner, 86, one of the well known older men of the city, died Tuesday morning about one o’clock following an attack of pneumonia. Dr. Cully, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, conducted the services at two o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Tidrick funeral home; burial was in the Winterset cemetery.

Mr. Gardner, who was a Civil war veteran, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, September 3, 1846. He was reared by an uncle, his mother dying at his birth. After serving a year and a half with company A, Fifth Ohio regiment, he came to Madison county to engage in farming. In later years he spent twenty years as an employee of the Krabiel Drug Co.

He was married April 25, 1888 to Mary Jane Duncan who died January 11, 1924. Mrs. Arnetta Neighbor, a daughter, is the surviving member of his family, another daughter and a son dying a number of years ago.

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