Shawnee County KS Archives Obituaries.....GARDNER, John W.  April 17, 1947
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The Topeka Daily Capital
Thursday
April 17, 1947

John W. Gardner, First Director of Highways, Is Dead.
Marion, Kan.,--April 16.--Funeral services will be held Saturday or Sunday in
Marion for John W. GARDNER, who died in a hospital in Las Vegas, Nev., Sunday
evening.
Mr. Gardner was the first director of the Kansas State Highway Department
serving in that capacity at the tome of the department's organization in April,
1929. He held the office form 1928 until 1930 and was succeeded by the late Guy
T. HELVERING.
A prominent citizen and abstractor at Marion for many years, Gardner twice
served as mayor, form 1922 to 1925, and again from 1944 until early this 
year. He was a member of the Shrine and Masonic Lodges.
Mr. Gardner's death occurred while he was enroute to California with his
daughter, Mrs. Tom HOWARD, and Major Howard. 


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