Obit of Gardner, Louis Robert - Kay County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Terri 02 Nov 2008 Return to Kay County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kay/kay.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Memorial Park Cemetery--Bartlesville OK Surnames: GARDNER, BIG ELK, MABERRY, PHILLIPS, MARTIN Louis R. Gardner from the 1-2-2003 Examiner Enterprise Mr. Louis Robert Gardner, 88, long time resident and retiree of the Phillips Petroleum Company, died at 8:40 a.m. on Tuesday in the Medicalodge of Dewey. Funeral services for Louis R. Gardner will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday at the graveside in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Leon Martin will be the officiant. Committal prayers and interment will be directed beside the grave of Mrs. Billie M. Gardner in the Memorial Park Cemetery by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service. A native of Kay County, Louis Robert Gardner was born March 19, 1914 at Ponca City. He was the son of the late Marion Samuel and Iva Myrtle (Phillips) Gardner. He was reared and received his normal schooling in Ponca City and was graduated with the Senior Class of l932. During World War II, he was enlisted in the United States Navy and following his honorable discharge he returned to Bartlesville and was employed by the Phillips Petroleum Company in the Tax and Insurance Claims Department. He and the former Ms. Billie Mae Maberry were married in 1947 in Bartlesville. They made their home here until l952 when they moved to Houston, Texas prior to being transferred to Amarillo, Texas in l955. In 1960, Louis and Billie Gardner moved to Oklahoma City to continue their employment. They were retired in l975 and remained residents until l997 when they moved to Newport Beach, California to be near their daughter. Mrs. Gardner preceded him in death on September 3, 1998 and Mr. Gardner had continued his home here since that time. Louis Gardner was a member of the Osage Indian Tribe, a 32nd. degree Mason and member of the Bartlesville Masonic Lodge No. 284, A.F.& A.M. and was a past member of the First Christian Church. Surviving are his daughter, Ms. Anne Maberry Gardner, Newport Beach, California. In addition to his father, mother and wife, he was preceded in death by a son, William Louis Gardner, a brother, Marion Edward Gardner,and by a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Emma Big Elk. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Kay County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kay/kay.html