OBIT: Rebecca GARDNER, 1892, Blair County, PA

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Death of Mrs. Rebecca Gardner.

On Wednesday night last Mrs. Rebecca Gardner, wife of Robert Gardner,
and a former resident of Altoona, died at the home of her son, L. H.
Gardner, in Hagerstown, Md., aged 81 years.  She was visiting at the
home of her son when she was taken ill with pneumonia, which was the
disease which cause(d) her death.  Besides her husband she is survived
by the following children:  James R. Gardner, of Ogalalla, Neb.; John
T. Gardner, of Altoona, and L. H. Gardner, of Hagerstown, Md.  She was
and had been for years a member of the Lutheran church, and was
connected with the congregation of the Second church of this city
during recent years.  The body will be brought to Altoona to-day on
mail train at 3.45 p.m., and conveyed to the residence of her son,
John T. Gardner, 810 Fourth avenue.  The funeral will take place on
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the services being held in the Second
Lutheran church.  Interment in Fairview cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, February 5, 1892, page 4


Laid to Rest.

The funeral services of "Mother" Gardner, a notice of whose death at
Hagerstown, Md., on the 3d inst., was promptly published in these
columns, were solemnized at the Second Lutheran church of this city
last Saturday afternoon, amid a large concourse of sympathizing
friends.

The touching words of the pastor, Rev. J. F. Hartman, founded on the
words, "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of
corn cometh in, in his season," Job 5:265, together with the dear old
hymns, "Mount Vernon," "When Shall We Meet Again" and "Nearer My Go
Thee" [Nearer My God to Thee] - so plaintively sung by four voices,
with the dirge like organ accompaniment, were eminently appropriate to
the memory of the long full life - "rounded up to its completeness" of
her who lay in peaceful silence before them.

It will be remembered by many that Father and Mother Gardner were for
many years honored residents of this city.  When in the natural
decline of life they resided in Harrisburg with their son Robert, the
faithful and heroic engineer, who about four years ago lost his life
at the post of duty, since which time they have spent part of their
time in this city and community and in Hagerstown, Md., with their
youngest son, Harry, a passenger engineer on the Shenandoah Valley
railroad, to whose home they only returned about two months ago.  They
both seemed in their apparently usual health, when very suddenly death
claimed the mother through hemorrhage of the lungs, perhaps the result
of pneumonia of a year ago. The sudden shock so prostrated Father
Gardner, now in his 84th year, that he was prevented from accompanying
his son Harry, with the remains to beautiful Fairview, of this city,
where their desire has ever been to be laid to rest.

Mother Gardner's posterity left to mourn their loss are three sons,
sixteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

In this connection the sons John T. and Harvey desire to express their
sincere thanks and appreciation of the tender sympathy manifested by
friends and neighbors together with the courteous services of the
pall-bearers.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, February 8, 1892, page 4