Beckham County, OK - Obits: Arthur Lahugh Gardner, 1924
15 Feb 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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GARDNER, ARTHUR LAHUGH
(26 Dec 1924, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
The news of the sudden death of Hugh Gardner on Wednesday morning was
quite a shock to his friends for many did not know he was sick, and some
knew he had started on a trip to see some friends only two days before,
but because of having trouble with car returned home.  He did not feel
well but was not thought to be in any danger.  His death was caused from
heart failure.
Mr. Gardner was for years the engineer at the Ice Plant and the past
season was at Hope & Haney Gin.  He was known as one of the very best
engineers in this section.  He would have been forty-two years old the 4th
of January.  He leaves a wife and two children, a son Oscar, and daughter,
Thelma, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gardner of Anadarko and four
sisters and four brothers: Mrs. S. Low, Anadarko, Mrs. Sowders, Oklahoma
City, Mrs. Gibbons, Galveston, Texas and Mrs. Ford of Shamrock, Texas, A.
W. Gardner, Austin, Texas, John B. Gardner, Galveston, Texas, J. M.
Gardner, Drumright and Bryan Gardner, Anadarko.
The sisters from Oklahoma City and Shamrock and his brothers J. B., J. M.,
and Bryan were here to attend the funeral.
Awaiting arrival of other relatives the funeral will not be held until
Saturday afternoon at the Christian Church conducted by C. H. Lemmex, the
pastor.
Mr. Gardner was a member of the Elks Club, also the W.O.W.
(2 Jan 1925, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Arthur Lahugh Gardner was born near Hillside, West Virginia, January 4th
1893 (cemetery has 1883).  He moved to Hagansville, Missouri, when a boy
and from there to Tonkawa, Okla., until 1901 when he moved to Anadarko,
Okla.  Mr. Gardner had lived in Elk City since Oct. 1912.  He worked for
the Elk City Ice, Fuel and Light Co., for nine years as an expert
mechanic.  At the time of his death he was employed at the Hope & Haney
Gin as engineer.  His death was caused from apoplexy.  He had not felt
well for thirty-six hours before the attack.
Those who are left to mourn his death are:  his mother and father, Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Gardner of Anadarko; four brothers, W. A. Gardner of Austin,
Texas; John B. Gardner of Galveston; J. M. Gardner of Drumright, and Bryan
Gardner of Anadarko.  Four sisters, Mrs. Harry P. Lowe, Mrs. Mary Sowders,
Mrs. Ada P. Giebner, and Jennie Ford.  Also a number of nieces and
nephews, a devoted wife, a son, Oscar, and a daughter, Louise.
Funeral services were held at the First Christian Church at 2:30 o'clock
December 27, Rev. Lemmex preached the funeral.  Mrs. R. L. Reid sang a
beautiful solo.  The W.O.W.'s had charge of the burial service.
Mr. Gardner was converted and baptised at Anadarko, Okla., in 1907, and
had been a member of the Christian Church for seventeen years, fourteen of
which he was a member of the First Christian Church of this city.  A host
of friends attended the funeral.  Among the large number of beautiful
floral offerings were those from the Elk's Lodge of which he was a member,
also W.O.W. Lodge, Mrs. Gardner's Sunday School class, and also Sunday
School classes of Louise and Oscar.

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