George Beckham Garner, 76, 216 N. Richardson Dr. , died Tuesday, Nov. 3, at Lake Cumberland Medical Center after a year's illness.
Born Oct. 1, 1905, at Cedar Point, he was the son of George Washington Garner and Christine Delk Garner.
A retired stone mason for the Ford Motor Company, he moved here from Ohio and was a member of the Cedar Point Baptist Church.
Survivors are his former wife, Lena Phelps, Norwood, Ohio; two sons, Ernest Beckham Garner and Jackie Andrew Garner, both of Louisville; a daughter, Joyce June Hundley, Louisville; two brothers, Finis Garner, New York, and Edgar Garner, Waynesburg; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Edwards, Somerset, Mrs. Lottie Brown, Lexington, and Mrs. Patsy Halcomb, Colorado; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Four brothers, Robert, Omer, Parker, and Frank Garner, and a sister, Mrs. Lillie Trimble, preceded him in death.
Services will be Thursday at 10 a.m. at the chapel of the Pulaski Funeral Home with the Rev. S.L. Sears officiating.
Burial will be in the Lakeside Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will begin after 3 p.m. today at the Pulaski Funeral Home.
From The Commonwealth-Journal, Somerset, Kentucky - Wednesday, November 4, 1981.
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Beckham Garner and Lena Phelps were married April 8, 1935 in Campbell County, Kentucky. Information from Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954 as listed on Ancestry.com.
George Beckham Garner and Nettie Beulah Thompson, Affidavit for Marriage dated March 30, 1960 is listed on Arizona, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1865-1972 on Ancestry.com. It states he was granted a divorce in the state of Ohio in 1936 and she was granted a divorce in the state of Tennessee in 1956. The year of divorce, 1936 for George Beckham Garner might not be correct. An article in The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio - Friday, March 25, 1938 lists Beckham Garner and Lena as husband and wife.
George Beckham Garner, 76, 216 N. Richardson Dr. , died Tuesday, Nov. 3, at Lake Cumberland Medical Center after a year's illness.
Born Oct. 1, 1905, at Cedar Point, he was the son of George Washington Garner and Christine Delk Garner.
A retired stone mason for the Ford Motor Company, he moved here from Ohio and was a member of the Cedar Point Baptist Church.
Survivors are his former wife, Lena Phelps, Norwood, Ohio; two sons, Ernest Beckham Garner and Jackie Andrew Garner, both of Louisville; a daughter, Joyce June Hundley, Louisville; two brothers, Finis Garner, New York, and Edgar Garner, Waynesburg; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Edwards, Somerset, Mrs. Lottie Brown, Lexington, and Mrs. Patsy Halcomb, Colorado; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Four brothers, Robert, Omer, Parker, and Frank Garner, and a sister, Mrs. Lillie Trimble, preceded him in death.
Services will be Thursday at 10 a.m. at the chapel of the Pulaski Funeral Home with the Rev. S.L. Sears officiating.
Burial will be in the Lakeside Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will begin after 3 p.m. today at the Pulaski Funeral Home.
From The Commonwealth-Journal, Somerset, Kentucky - Wednesday, November 4, 1981.
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Beckham Garner and Lena Phelps were married April 8, 1935 in Campbell County, Kentucky. Information from Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954 as listed on Ancestry.com.
George Beckham Garner and Nettie Beulah Thompson, Affidavit for Marriage dated March 30, 1960 is listed on Arizona, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1865-1972 on Ancestry.com. It states he was granted a divorce in the state of Ohio in 1936 and she was granted a divorce in the state of Tennessee in 1956. The year of divorce, 1936 for George Beckham Garner might not be correct. An article in The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio - Friday, March 25, 1938 lists Beckham Garner and Lena as husband and wife.
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