Payne Co OK - Obit for Clara Berniece Gardner 
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March 2, 2003

Clara Berniece Gardner, 83, of Norman died February 27, 2003 in Norman. 
Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Havenbrook Funeral Home 
Chapel in Norman. Robert Gardner will offciate. Interment will follow at the 
Sunset Memorial Gardens in Stillwater. 

Pallbearers will be Robert Gardner, Harry Gardner, Bradley Gardner, Phil 
Torrance, Steve Schultz and Marv Leyerle. Services are under the direction 
of Havenbrook Funeral Home of Norman. 

Gardner was born Aug. 12, 1919 in Burlington, Iowa, to Dory Franklin and 
Cora Mabel Hudson Parsons. She married Emery Elton Gardner on July 22, 1941 
in Hannibal, Mo. and they lived for thirty five years in LaGrange, Ill., 
before moving to Stillwater in 1985. 

She moved to Norman in 1994 from Stillwater. 

She loved playing bingo and spending time with her granchildren. She was a 
member of McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church in Norman. 

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two sisters, Lucille 
Lohmann and Thelma Thompson; and two brothers, Roy and Harry Parsons. 

Survivors include two sons, Harry Franklin Gardner and 

wife, Carolyn, of Averill Park, N.Y. and Robert Keith Gardner and wife, Melody, 
of Colorado Springs, Colo.; one daughter, Sandra Louise Torrance and husband, 
Phil, of Norman; nephew, Frank Lohmann and wife, Pam, of Illinois; ten 
grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
  

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