Earl Franklin Gardner
1906 - 1983 (76 years)-
Name Earl Franklin Gardner Born 21 Mar 1906 Browning, Linn County, Missouri 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Occupation farmer, grocery store owner [1] Census 1930 Fremont County, Wyoming Census 1940 Fremont County, Wyoming Died 14 Mar 1983 Kinnear, Fremont County, Wyoming [2, 3, 4] Buried Mountain View Cemetery, Riverton, Fremont County, Wyoming [2, 3] Person ID I113 Hedges Last Modified 14 Apr 2023
Father Charles Emmett Gardner, b. 4 Apr 1862, Illinois , d. 20 Oct 1942, Fremont County, Wyoming (Age 80 years) Mother Emma Annaliza Hedges, b. 18 May 1869, Rowan County, Kentucky , d. 19 Jul 1945, Riverton, Fremont County, Wyoming (Age 76 years) Married 22 Dec 1888 Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois [1] Family ID F61 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Stella Margaret Kelly, b. 6 Jan 1912, Kaycee, Johnson County, Wyoming , d. 28 Dec 1998, Riverton, Fremont County, Wyoming (Age 86 years) Married 1 Feb 1930 Riverton, Fremont County, Wyoming [1, 3] Last Modified 21 Dec 2023 Family ID F83 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 21 Mar 1906 - Browning, Linn County, Missouri 
Census - 1930 - Fremont County, Wyoming 
Married - 1 Feb 1930 - Riverton, Fremont County, Wyoming Census - 1940 - Fremont County, Wyoming 
Died - 14 Mar 1983 - Kinnear, Fremont County, Wyoming 
Buried - - Mountain View Cemetery, Riverton, Fremont County, Wyoming = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - MHR note: four children
Earl was a farmer, Republican, and a Mason.
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Riverton – Services for Earl Franklin Gardner, of Kinnear, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Davis Funeral Home.
The Rev. Dick Eaton and the Rev. Joseph Harte will officiate with burial at Mountain View Cemetery. Committal services will be conducted by the Odd Fellows Lodge.
Mr. Gardner died March 14 at his home.
Born March 21, 1906 at Browning, Mo., he was the son of Charles and Emma Gardner.
On Feb. 1 1930, he married Stella Kelly at Riverton.
A retired grocery store operator, Mr. Gardner opened Gardner’s Market in Kinnear in 1947 and sold the store to his son-in-law, Donald Foster in 1957.
An avid rock hound and fisherman, he was a member of Holy Nativity Church and the Odd Fellows Lodge. He was lived in Kinnear since 1909.
Besides his widow, he is survived by two sons, Dave Gardner of Missouri Valley, and Charles Gardner of Paradise Valley; two daughters Nellie Newberry of Eugene, Ore., and Marilyn Foster of Kinnear; two sisters, Goldie Farrens of Riverton and Lena Klotz of New Richmond, Minn., 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Memorials to the American Lung Assn., in care of the Davis Funeral Home of Riverton, would be appreciated by the family.
Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming. Wednesday, 16 March 1983.
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