Earl Clinton Gardner (1886-1962)

GARDNER, MOUNT, BATES

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/22/2022 at 12:19:04

From Nevada Journal September 20, 1962 (page 2)

Earl C. Gardner Funeral Services Held In Cambridge

Funeral services for Earl C. Gardner of Cambridge were held in the Cambridge Methodist Church on Monday, Sept. 17, with the Rev. J. E. McClellan officiating. The Rev. H. A. Kroepel assisted in the service. Interment was in the Cambridge cemetery.

Music was furnished by Reuben Kristianson and Elsie Dyer, Mrs. Ray Johnson and Mrs. Richard Seversike cared for flowers.

Honorary bearers were Norman Baker, Andrew Buland, Roy Johnson, George Edwards, Wilbur Kooyman and Kenneth Jennings.

Csket bearers were John Scott, Richard Ballard, C. J. Sampers, Tom Shinn, Kermit Griffith and Richard Seversike.

The Cooper Funeral Home in Maxwell was in charge of the arrangements.

Obituary

Earl Clinton Gardner, son of Robert and Ida Gardner, was born May 9, 1886, on a farm south of Maxwell, Iowa and grew to manhood in the Iowa Center community.

Following attendance at the Iowa Center school, he was graduated from the Highland park College of Engineering at Des Moines. After graduation he operated a garage in Maxwell for a short time, then moved to Bagley, Iowa, where he continued in the garage business.

On June 19, 1912, he was united in marriage to Esta Mount. To this union two sons were born.

After approximately three years in business in Bagley he moved to Mason City, and then to Clear Lake, where he was engaged in the garage business for 20 years. In 1934, he moved to Mingo where he continued operating a garage until the fall of 1937, when he moved to Cambridge. Here he was also in garage business until his retirement in 1954. The last nine years being in partnership with his sons.

He served on the Town Council in Mingo, followed by seven years as councilman of Cambridge and three years as mayor of Cambridge. He was again serving as mayor of Cambridge at the time of his death. He was a past president of the Cambridge Commercial Club and continued as an active member of the Cambridge Community Club.

Gardner became a member of the United Evangelical Church as a boy in Iowa Center, transferring his membership to the Methodist Church in Clear Lake, then to Mingo and finally to Cambridge where he served on various commissions throughout the years, having been Sunday School superintendent at various times and teacher of the Adult Class. He was church Lay Leader and chairman of the Board of Trustees at his death.

Earl was stricken with a heart attack and died the evening of Sept. 14, 1962, in Cambridge, at the age of 76 years, four months, and five days.

He is survived by his wife Esta; two sons, Leland and Lawrence of Cambridge; one sister, Mrs. Eland (Myrtle) Bates of Ames; one brother, Glen of Pine River, Minn.; six grandchildren and a large number of other relatives and friends.