Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Francis M. 1959 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net March 28, 2014, 1:01 pm Portland, 29 Oct 1959 Francis Gardner Dies Saturday In Florida Francis M. Gardner, 63, died Saturday at Roseland, Fla., and funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Neller Funeral Home, the Rev. Robert Treat officiating, and burial was in Portland cemetery. Mr. Gardner and his wife had left Portland only a few weeks before his death. Surviving are the wife, Hazel; a son, Francis M. Jr. in the US Air Force; two sisters Mrs. Effie Ethridge of Little Rock, Ark. and Mrs. Minnie Helwig of Paducah, Ky.; three brothers, Wallace Gardner of Boaz, Ky., and Edward and Tom Gardner of Paducah. Portland F & AM No. 31 was in charge of graveside services. The deceased was a member of Eastgate Masonic Lodge in Detroit and a veteran of World War I. Bearers were George Sandborn, Robert Holtz, Harry Smith, Richard Smith, Dan Watson and Howard Wilcox. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/g/gardner24214nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb