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- Mary E. Gardner
Riverton – Funeral services for Mary E. Gardner, 98, will be held today at 10 a.m. at the United Methodist Church of Riverton with the Rev. Barry Tagart officiating. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery.
Mrs. Gardner died May 18, 1997, at Wind River Healthcare in Riverton.
She was born April 24, 1899, in Saratoga, the daughter of Lua Otis Kelly and Margaret (Mauk) Kelly. They spent a short time in Fort Steele before moving to Kaycee and then to Riverton by covered wagon when she was 12 years old.
Her grandparents and parents had come to the Wyoming Territory in the late 1870s and early 1880s, settling in the Saratoga and Dixon areas. She attended school at Kaycee, at Delfelder rural school in Fremont County and completed the 11th grade at Riverton High School in 1915.
She married Jess Lee Gardner on Dec. 22, 1917, in Riverton. They spent the remainder of that winter in a walled tent on Union Pass, while Mr. Gardner worked timber.
After World War I, they farmed in the Arapahoe and Morton area until 1938 when they moved to Riverton.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Riverton.
She was a homemaker and worked in ladies ready-to-wear at the J.M. McDonald Company.
She enjoyed crocheting and continued with the craft until just before her death. She also enjoyed other crafts and loved to visit with family and friends.
She was a 70-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star, a 61-year member of the Fremont County Extension Homemakers Council and a 59-year member of the American Legion Auxiliary.
She also belonged to the Historical Society, Rebekahs and was a charter member of the Riverview Extension Club.
Survivors include a daughter, Mary Donelson of Riverton; two daughters-in-law, Verna and Louise Gardner of Arizona; five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, a sister, Stella Gardner of Riverton; a sister-in-law and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband on Dec. 18, 1957, three sons, Jess Lee Jr., Eugene and Gerald Gardner; a son-in-law and three brothers, Bert, Earl and Glenn Kelly.
Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.
The Davis Funeral Home of Riverton is in charge of arrangements.
Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming. Wednesday, 21 May 1997.
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