Hal Gardner -- name rhymes with shall and pal
Hal Gardner, 81, of Gridley died Sept. 20, 2000, at his residence.
Born in Ogden, Utah, he was a Mid-Valley resident for 63 years.
He was a farmer for most of his life but also did welding in Long Beach, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was a member of the Gridley Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Survivors include four brothers, Vere Gardner of Gridley, Milo Gardner of Fair Oaks, Allen Gardner of Menden, Utah, and Colin Gardner of Bountiful, Utah; and three sisters, Dixie Gotfredson and Zoe Bradley, both of Chico, and Faith Stowers of North Highlands.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Don Gardner and Jack Gardner.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Missionary Fund.
Services: A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Gridley-Biggs Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Gridley-Block Funeral Chapel
Hal's brother, Colin, wrote the following:
I remember some things about my Brother Don:
When we grew up the three oldest boys had the chores of doing dishes; one would clear the table, one would be washing the' dishes, and the other would be putting clean ones away. After a time, those "three" graduated to "outside" work, and the next three would take over these chores. Then when our turn came to graduate to outside chores, like milking cows, feeding them, putting up hay, etc, then the three girls had their turn. Milo,apparently, never did get his turn like we did doing family chores daily.
One of my early chores was bringing in kindling (small slivers of wood,etc ) to start our wood burning stove. Along with the kindling and wood that I had to bring in, I would also bring in a bucket of "dried peach pits." We would get fresh peach pits from the Libby McNeil and Libby peach cannery, which was in Gridley, along the railroad tracks, which ran though the town of Gridley.. As I remember it was one of the largest peach canneries in the country, putting out over a million cans of fruit/day or season... I was a lot, I know that.
Mom and Dad, and several of us boys worked there also. Dad was mostly involved in putting in new machinery, or repairing it from time to time. My job there was unloading railroad box cars which were full of empty can, mostly the quart size. We had a long stick or pole, with about 2 dozen pegs on it, and would load this long stick with empty cans and then place them in a metal shute which ran by gravity into the cannery, where they were filled by (usually) the women. When mom were there she worked on a peach pitting machine. She became very expert at this, and worked for "extra" house money during the summer months.
While we lived in Santa Ana / Garden Grove, I remember we had a ten acre grove of orange trees. I can still remember going with my dad into Garden Grove with a truck load of oranges. We unloaded fifty-pound boxes onto a set of rollers, that took each box and rolled it into the basement. Since I was never older than 6, while living there, I remember climbing into an empty orange box and "taking a ride" down this shute. While we lived in Gridley, the local LDS church members would put up Deseret Brand Peaches and sent them to the Bishop's Storehouse.
Our Church Cannery was next door to our Liberty Ward Chapel. There was also another LDS Church cannery in Yuba City. During World War II there were a lot of "community" canneries built so any US citizen could come and put up various kinds of fruit or vegetables. There was such a cannery that was in Live Oak, California, a distance of about 6 miles south of Gridley. Even after I go married, and lots of children, I went to this cannery and put up as many as 400 cans of peaches in a single day.
While living in Gridley, we always put up fruit. My dad would get up early in the morning, and begin by picking several boxes (50 lbs each) of cling peaches. After picking the peaches, my dad would build a fire, in a rock fire-pit just southeast of our house. My had
created a vat for boiling (lye)water for submerging peaches that had to be "rimmed" and Hand-pitted, in this lye solution until their skins came off. We then had two large barrels, a 30-gal and a 50-gal full of fresh water. Since we pumped our own water, at first, in 1935, we had two hand pumps, and I think we had an electric pump for our house water.
This vat, for lyeing peaches was a 50-gallon barrel, cut off so it was only 12-20" inches high. My had made a wire basket to place our rimmed and pitted peaches in to lye them. We then would place rinse off the peaches, and trim them, if necessary, and then place them into the 50 gallon barrel, until such time as they were put into bottles and cooked in a waterbed. Mom had two stoves going doing this cooking.
In a typical day, we would put up (bottle, and cook) 400 qt of peaches. They were mostly put in as halves, and with about 100 qt of peaches would be in slices. Our bottle size was "usually" the 2 qt size.....because we were a large family and "used" a lot of fruit in a year. We stored our fruit in a small "fruit caller" , which was about 6 feet wide and 12-14 feet long. It was already built there by the previous owner.
Hal Gardner, 81, of Gridley died Sept. 20, 2000, at his residence.
Born in Ogden, Utah, he was a Mid-Valley resident for 63 years.
He was a farmer for most of his life but also did welding in Long Beach, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was a member of the Gridley Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Survivors include four brothers, Vere Gardner of Gridley, Milo Gardner of Fair Oaks, Allen Gardner of Menden, Utah, and Colin Gardner of Bountiful, Utah; and three sisters, Dixie Gotfredson and Zoe Bradley, both of Chico, and Faith Stowers of North Highlands.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Don Gardner and Jack Gardner.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Missionary Fund.
Services: A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Gridley-Biggs Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Gridley-Block Funeral Chapel
Hal's brother, Colin, wrote the following:
I remember some things about my Brother Don:
When we grew up the three oldest boys had the chores of doing dishes; one would clear the table, one would be washing the' dishes, and the other would be putting clean ones away. After a time, those "three" graduated to "outside" work, and the next three would take over these chores. Then when our turn came to graduate to outside chores, like milking cows, feeding them, putting up hay, etc, then the three girls had their turn. Milo,apparently, never did get his turn like we did doing family chores daily.
One of my early chores was bringing in kindling (small slivers of wood,etc ) to start our wood burning stove. Along with the kindling and wood that I had to bring in, I would also bring in a bucket of "dried peach pits." We would get fresh peach pits from the Libby McNeil and Libby peach cannery, which was in Gridley, along the railroad tracks, which ran though the town of Gridley.. As I remember it was one of the largest peach canneries in the country, putting out over a million cans of fruit/day or season... I was a lot, I know that.
Mom and Dad, and several of us boys worked there also. Dad was mostly involved in putting in new machinery, or repairing it from time to time. My job there was unloading railroad box cars which were full of empty can, mostly the quart size. We had a long stick or pole, with about 2 dozen pegs on it, and would load this long stick with empty cans and then place them in a metal shute which ran by gravity into the cannery, where they were filled by (usually) the women. When mom were there she worked on a peach pitting machine. She became very expert at this, and worked for "extra" house money during the summer months.
While we lived in Santa Ana / Garden Grove, I remember we had a ten acre grove of orange trees. I can still remember going with my dad into Garden Grove with a truck load of oranges. We unloaded fifty-pound boxes onto a set of rollers, that took each box and rolled it into the basement. Since I was never older than 6, while living there, I remember climbing into an empty orange box and "taking a ride" down this shute. While we lived in Gridley, the local LDS church members would put up Deseret Brand Peaches and sent them to the Bishop's Storehouse.
Our Church Cannery was next door to our Liberty Ward Chapel. There was also another LDS Church cannery in Yuba City. During World War II there were a lot of "community" canneries built so any US citizen could come and put up various kinds of fruit or vegetables. There was such a cannery that was in Live Oak, California, a distance of about 6 miles south of Gridley. Even after I go married, and lots of children, I went to this cannery and put up as many as 400 cans of peaches in a single day.
While living in Gridley, we always put up fruit. My dad would get up early in the morning, and begin by picking several boxes (50 lbs each) of cling peaches. After picking the peaches, my dad would build a fire, in a rock fire-pit just southeast of our house. My had
created a vat for boiling (lye)water for submerging peaches that had to be "rimmed" and Hand-pitted, in this lye solution until their skins came off. We then had two large barrels, a 30-gal and a 50-gal full of fresh water. Since we pumped our own water, at first, in 1935, we had two hand pumps, and I think we had an electric pump for our house water.
This vat, for lyeing peaches was a 50-gallon barrel, cut off so it was only 12-20" inches high. My had made a wire basket to place our rimmed and pitted peaches in to lye them. We then would place rinse off the peaches, and trim them, if necessary, and then place them into the 50 gallon barrel, until such time as they were put into bottles and cooked in a waterbed. Mom had two stoves going doing this cooking.
In a typical day, we would put up (bottle, and cook) 400 qt of peaches. They were mostly put in as halves, and with about 100 qt of peaches would be in slices. Our bottle size was "usually" the 2 qt size.....because we were a large family and "used" a lot of fruit in a year. We stored our fruit in a small "fruit caller" , which was about 6 feet wide and 12-14 feet long. It was already built there by the previous owner.
Hal Gardner -- name rhymes with shall and pal
Hal Gardner, 81, of Gridley died Sept. 20, 2000, at his residence.
Born in Ogden, Utah, he was a Mid-Valley resident for 63 years.
He was a farmer for most of his life but also did welding in Long Beach, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was a member of the Gridley Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Survivors include four brothers, Vere Gardner of Gridley, Milo Gardner of Fair Oaks, Allen Gardner of Menden, Utah, and Colin Gardner of Bountiful, Utah; and three sisters, Dixie Gotfredson and Zoe Bradley, both of Chico, and Faith Stowers of North Highlands.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Don Gardner and Jack Gardner.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Missionary Fund.
Services: A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Gridley-Biggs Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Gridley-Block Funeral Chapel
Hal's brother, Colin, wrote the following:
I remember some things about my Brother Don:
When we grew up the three oldest boys had the chores of doing dishes; one would clear the table, one would be washing the' dishes, and the other would be putting clean ones away. After a time, those "three" graduated to "outside" work, and the next three would take over these chores. Then when our turn came to graduate to outside chores, like milking cows, feeding them, putting up hay, etc, then the three girls had their turn. Milo,apparently, never did get his turn like we did doing family chores daily.
One of my early chores was bringing in kindling (small slivers of wood,etc ) to start our wood burning stove. Along with the kindling and wood that I had to bring in, I would also bring in a bucket of "dried peach pits." We would get fresh peach pits from the Libby McNeil and Libby peach cannery, which was in Gridley, along the railroad tracks, which ran though the town of Gridley.. As I remember it was one of the largest peach canneries in the country, putting out over a million cans of fruit/day or season... I was a lot, I know that.
Mom and Dad, and several of us boys worked there also. Dad was mostly involved in putting in new machinery, or repairing it from time to time. My job there was unloading railroad box cars which were full of empty can, mostly the quart size. We had a long stick or pole, with about 2 dozen pegs on it, and would load this long stick with empty cans and then place them in a metal shute which ran by gravity into the cannery, where they were filled by (usually) the women. When mom were there she worked on a peach pitting machine. She became very expert at this, and worked for "extra" house money during the summer months.
While we lived in Santa Ana / Garden Grove, I remember we had a ten acre grove of orange trees. I can still remember going with my dad into Garden Grove with a truck load of oranges. We unloaded fifty-pound boxes onto a set of rollers, that took each box and rolled it into the basement. Since I was never older than 6, while living there, I remember climbing into an empty orange box and "taking a ride" down this shute. While we lived in Gridley, the local LDS church members would put up Deseret Brand Peaches and sent them to the Bishop's Storehouse.
Our Church Cannery was next door to our Liberty Ward Chapel. There was also another LDS Church cannery in Yuba City. During World War II there were a lot of "community" canneries built so any US citizen could come and put up various kinds of fruit or vegetables. There was such a cannery that was in Live Oak, California, a distance of about 6 miles south of Gridley. Even after I go married, and lots of children, I went to this cannery and put up as many as 400 cans of peaches in a single day.
While living in Gridley, we always put up fruit. My dad would get up early in the morning, and begin by picking several boxes (50 lbs each) of cling peaches. After picking the peaches, my dad would build a fire, in a rock fire-pit just southeast of our house. My had
created a vat for boiling (lye)water for submerging peaches that had to be "rimmed" and Hand-pitted, in this lye solution until their skins came off. We then had two large barrels, a 30-gal and a 50-gal full of fresh water. Since we pumped our own water, at first, in 1935, we had two hand pumps, and I think we had an electric pump for our house water.
This vat, for lyeing peaches was a 50-gallon barrel, cut off so it was only 12-20" inches high. My had made a wire basket to place our rimmed and pitted peaches in to lye them. We then would place rinse off the peaches, and trim them, if necessary, and then place them into the 50 gallon barrel, until such time as they were put into bottles and cooked in a waterbed. Mom had two stoves going doing this cooking.
In a typical day, we would put up (bottle, and cook) 400 qt of peaches. They were mostly put in as halves, and with about 100 qt of peaches would be in slices. Our bottle size was "usually" the 2 qt size.....because we were a large family and "used" a lot of fruit in a year. We stored our fruit in a small "fruit caller" , which was about 6 feet wide and 12-14 feet long. It was already built there by the previous owner.
Hal Gardner, 81, of Gridley died Sept. 20, 2000, at his residence.
Born in Ogden, Utah, he was a Mid-Valley resident for 63 years.
He was a farmer for most of his life but also did welding in Long Beach, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was a member of the Gridley Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Survivors include four brothers, Vere Gardner of Gridley, Milo Gardner of Fair Oaks, Allen Gardner of Menden, Utah, and Colin Gardner of Bountiful, Utah; and three sisters, Dixie Gotfredson and Zoe Bradley, both of Chico, and Faith Stowers of North Highlands.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Don Gardner and Jack Gardner.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Missionary Fund.
Services: A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Gridley-Biggs Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Gridley-Block Funeral Chapel
Hal's brother, Colin, wrote the following:
I remember some things about my Brother Don:
When we grew up the three oldest boys had the chores of doing dishes; one would clear the table, one would be washing the' dishes, and the other would be putting clean ones away. After a time, those "three" graduated to "outside" work, and the next three would take over these chores. Then when our turn came to graduate to outside chores, like milking cows, feeding them, putting up hay, etc, then the three girls had their turn. Milo,apparently, never did get his turn like we did doing family chores daily.
One of my early chores was bringing in kindling (small slivers of wood,etc ) to start our wood burning stove. Along with the kindling and wood that I had to bring in, I would also bring in a bucket of "dried peach pits." We would get fresh peach pits from the Libby McNeil and Libby peach cannery, which was in Gridley, along the railroad tracks, which ran though the town of Gridley.. As I remember it was one of the largest peach canneries in the country, putting out over a million cans of fruit/day or season... I was a lot, I know that.
Mom and Dad, and several of us boys worked there also. Dad was mostly involved in putting in new machinery, or repairing it from time to time. My job there was unloading railroad box cars which were full of empty can, mostly the quart size. We had a long stick or pole, with about 2 dozen pegs on it, and would load this long stick with empty cans and then place them in a metal shute which ran by gravity into the cannery, where they were filled by (usually) the women. When mom were there she worked on a peach pitting machine. She became very expert at this, and worked for "extra" house money during the summer months.
While we lived in Santa Ana / Garden Grove, I remember we had a ten acre grove of orange trees. I can still remember going with my dad into Garden Grove with a truck load of oranges. We unloaded fifty-pound boxes onto a set of rollers, that took each box and rolled it into the basement. Since I was never older than 6, while living there, I remember climbing into an empty orange box and "taking a ride" down this shute. While we lived in Gridley, the local LDS church members would put up Deseret Brand Peaches and sent them to the Bishop's Storehouse.
Our Church Cannery was next door to our Liberty Ward Chapel. There was also another LDS Church cannery in Yuba City. During World War II there were a lot of "community" canneries built so any US citizen could come and put up various kinds of fruit or vegetables. There was such a cannery that was in Live Oak, California, a distance of about 6 miles south of Gridley. Even after I go married, and lots of children, I went to this cannery and put up as many as 400 cans of peaches in a single day.
While living in Gridley, we always put up fruit. My dad would get up early in the morning, and begin by picking several boxes (50 lbs each) of cling peaches. After picking the peaches, my dad would build a fire, in a rock fire-pit just southeast of our house. My had
created a vat for boiling (lye)water for submerging peaches that had to be "rimmed" and Hand-pitted, in this lye solution until their skins came off. We then had two large barrels, a 30-gal and a 50-gal full of fresh water. Since we pumped our own water, at first, in 1935, we had two hand pumps, and I think we had an electric pump for our house water.
This vat, for lyeing peaches was a 50-gallon barrel, cut off so it was only 12-20" inches high. My had made a wire basket to place our rimmed and pitted peaches in to lye them. We then would place rinse off the peaches, and trim them, if necessary, and then place them into the 50 gallon barrel, until such time as they were put into bottles and cooked in a waterbed. Mom had two stoves going doing this cooking.
In a typical day, we would put up (bottle, and cook) 400 qt of peaches. They were mostly put in as halves, and with about 100 qt of peaches would be in slices. Our bottle size was "usually" the 2 qt size.....because we were a large family and "used" a lot of fruit in a year. We stored our fruit in a small "fruit caller" , which was about 6 feet wide and 12-14 feet long. It was already built there by the previous owner.
Inscription
In Loving Memory Of
HAL GARDNER
OGDEN, UTah Jan. 10, 1919
Gridley Calif.
Sept 20, 2000
