Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Earl February 5, 2012
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Virginian-Pilot February 7, 2012
Norfolk - Earl Gardner, 85, was born on February 23, 1926, in Aliceville, 
Alabama, to the late John and Beatrice Turnipseed Gardner. He departed this life 
on Sunday, February 5, 2012, at Churchland House in Portsmouth, VA. He was 
educated in Alabama and moved to Norfolk, Virginia in the early 1940s. He joined 
the U.S. Army and is a veteran of World War II. After the war, he worked for the 
Civil Service. In the 1960s, he was one of the first of four African-Americans 
to be inducted as a Deep Sea Checker into Local 1624 of the International 
Longshoreman's Association, for which he worked for over 25 years until his 
retirement in 1991. He was predeceased in 1959 by his daughter, Earlynn Dale 
Gardner, in 2008 by his wife, Dorothy Davis Gardner, of 61 years, and in 2009 by 
his son, Gerald Brent Gardner. He is survived by nine sons and daughters: Earl 
Ward of Baltimore, MD, Randall Gardner (Aldena), Gregory Gardner, Sandra Gardner 
Kelly, Dwayne Gardner, Kathy Gardner Williams (Leon), Beatrice Gardner Hinton, 
Dorothy Elouise Gardner Franks (Marvin), Barry Gardner (Ayanna), a first cousin, 
Annie Brooks; in-laws, Annie Hill Gardner, Pamela Simpson Clarke, Evelyn Davis 
Glover and Estella Williams Joyner, all of the Hampton Roads area; and 49 grand- 
and great-grandchildren. A funeral service will take place on Wednesday, 
February 8, 11 a.m. at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, 934 W. Little Creek Rd, 
Norfolk. There will be a viewing on Tuesday, February 7 from 3-8 p.m. at 
Metropolitan Funeral Service, 7246 Granby St., Norfolk. Interment will be in 
Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk following the service.

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