Doris Mary (McKenna) GARDNER

MCKENNA, GARDNER, BAESSLER, BAKER, MAGENNIS, TARPEIN, JAMIESON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/2/2011 at 17:30:11

March 22, 2011
Quad City Times - Davenport, Iowa

August 13, 1917 -- March 20, 2011

DAVENPORT, IA — Funeral services for Doris M. Gardner, 93, of Davenport, formerly a longtime resident of Ft. Dodge, Iowa, will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at Holy Family Church in Davenport. Interment will be at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Livermore, Iowa. The family will greet friends from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Cunnick-Collins Mortuary in Davenport. Mrs. Gardner passed away on Sunday, March 20, 2011, at Select Specialty Hospital in Davenport.

Doris Mary McKenna was born in Hardy, Iowa, on August 13, 1917, the daughter of Edward and Ida (Baessler) McKenna. She attended school in Livermore, Iowa, and graduated in 1938 from the Iowa Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls. She taught in a one-room schoolhouse in the Livermore area before moving to Fort Dodge. She later worked at JC Penney Co. in downtown Fort Dodge. On October 20, 1948, she married Vincent B. Gardner. Vince preceded her in death in 1997. She worked at Fort Dodge Senior High School Kitchen from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. In 1999, Doris moved to Davenport to be closer to her family. She enjoyed traveling and visiting with her children and grandchildren, and was a proud Dallas Clark fan from Livermore.

She is survived by a daughter, Margaret (Frank) Baker of Davenport; two sons, Kevin (Irene) Gardner of Anchorage, Alaska, and Matt (Janet) of Medina, Ohio; seven grandchildren, T. J. (Amy) Magennis of Delano, Minn., Megan (Travis) Tarpein of Bettendorf, Iowa, Molly Magennis of Davenport, Amanda Gardner of Brooklyn, N.Y., Ryan Gardner of Anchorage, Alaska, Katie Gardner of Medina, Ohio, and Nick Gardner of Medina, Ohio; five great-grandsons, Justin and Jack Magennis of Delano, Minn., Vince and Jett Tarpein of Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rocco Magennis of Davenport; a sister, Jeanne Jamieson of Clear Lake, Iowa; a brother, Donald (Eleanor) McKenna of Spokane, Wash.; and many nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by four brothers, Francis, Raymond, Robert, and Charles. Memorials may be directed to Holy Family Church, Davenport.