Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Chester 1945
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Belding Banner-News, 8 Nov 1945

Long Time Resident Taken By Death

Chester Gardner, aged 69 years, passed away Thursday morning at his home at 703
Morton Ave., after an illness of several weeks.  He was born May 26, 1876, at
Smyrna and lived in this vicinity all of his life.  He served his country in the
Spanish-American war.  He was married December 4, 1901, to Edith Chapman and to
this union were born two sons, Warren and Hugh, and one daughter, June, all of
this city.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 2:30 at the Fales-Huffman Funeral Home with
Rev. H. S. Ellis officiating and burial was in River Ridge cemetery.  The bugler
and firing squad from the State Troops in charge of Lt. Harold Geisen and Capt.
Frank D. Curtis of camp No. 56 of Ionia, were present and had a part in the
service.  Besides the widow and three children he is survived by two brothers,
Winfield of Mancelona and Virgil of Smyrna; also five grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.  Pall bearers chosen from the Spanish-American War veterans
were Jay Hanson, William Thatcher, George Joslin, A. L. Snyder, Hiram Crandall
and Earl Mason.


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