BRUCE MORTON GARVER (PhD in history, Yale University, 1971) is Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and has published works on Czech, Slovak, and Austrian history and on the history of Czech immigrants in the United States.
KAREN LOUISE (KING) GARVER (PhD in modern French history from UCLA, 1974) retired from the University of Nebraska at Omaha as an academic advisor in Continuing Studies and as an adjunct instructor of history.
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We work together on many "Find a Grave" Memorials and "bios" and are always delighted to receive well documented additions and corrections to any of the Find a Grave Memorials that we manage. When suggesting such improvements to us, please use the "Suggest A Correction" link on the Memorial for the particular person involved. Moreover, we are prepared to transfer any Memorial to a relative of the deceased so long as neither of us is related to the same person. When making any request for a transfer of Memorial management, please provide that Memorial's ID Number and an explicit documented description of your relationship to the person commemorated by the Memorial.
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In June 2016, we donated a large collection of captioned digital family photographs to Lane Public Library in Hamilton, seat of Butler County, Ohio, where most of Bruce's great-great grandparents, and all of his great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents resided during part of their lives. When distributing any of the above photos in digital or printed form, please give credit to Bruce & Karen Garver and & the Garver-Morton-Lotz-Bippus-McCloskey Family Digital Photograph Collection at Lane Public Library in Hamilton, Ohio. We have donated smaller collections of digital photos to the Bob McCloskey Museum of the Butler County Historical Society, to the Historic Byers-Evans House of the Colorado State Historical Society in Denver, and to the Jensen Public Library at Minden, seat of Kearney County, Nebraska, where Karen's great-grandparents Joseph Henry Sears (1840-1904) & Mary Frances (Koon) Sears (1854-1927) were among the first homesteaders to settle, during the year 1876, in Lowell Township of Kearney County, Nebraska. We have attached many captioned photos from the above four collections to pertinent Find a Grave Memorials. We encourage interested persons to do research at the above four and other splendid public non-profit institutions.
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We take a keen interest in Memorials to U.S. military veterans, particularly those Memorials dedicated to the many such veterans in our extended families. We wed on August 4, 1962, at Palos Verdes Estates, California, between Bruce's deployments as a LTJG to South Vietnam and elsewhere in East Asia aboard the USS GALLANT (MSO-489) in 1961-62 and aboard the USS NAVARRO (APA-215) in 1963-64. From November 1961 to April 1962, the GALLANT and four other ocean-going minesweepers helped the South Vietnamese Navy establish a barrier patrol between the port of Da Nang and the Paracel Islands to intercept shipments of supplies and reinforcements by sea to the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. During May 1963, the NAVARRO was one of five U.S. Navy ships exposed to "bacilli globigi", a relative of anthrax with the same M.O., during "Phase Autumn Gold" of "Project SHAD", whose top secret bacteriological & chemical warfare tests were carefully designed by the JFK administration, involved thousands of unwitting human subjects, and were declassified in August 2001.
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The surnames of Karen Louise (King) Garver's direct paternal ancestors are KING, Cluston, ROBINSON, and Hapgood. Those of Karen's direct maternal ancestors are SEARS, HENRY, Ayer, Chipman, Crowell, Fish, Howes, Howland, Joyce, Koon, LOCKHART, McFarland, McREYNOLDS, Montgomery, Stone, Thayer, and Tilley. Surnames of Karen's other close relatives include Cobb, Feldacker, Goss, Graham, Hartman, Hawbold, Jordan, Labedz, Lewis, Malcolm, Mason, Sharpe, and Wanmer.
The surnames of Bruce Morton Garver's direct paternal ancestors are GARVER, TROUTMAN (originally "Trautmann"), Bauer, BENDER, Brooks, Bower (probably originally spelled "Bauer"), Erhard (originally "Erhardt"), Fisher (originally "Fischer"}, Gnandt, HENNINGER (originally "Höninger"), JACKSON, Pierce, and REGG.
The surnames of Bruce's direct maternal ancestors are MORTON (originally the Finnish surname "Marttinen"), WALDEN, Clifton, Cooley, Rees, Walraven, Welsh, LOTZ, BRUCK (originally "Brűck"), DONGES, Hartmann, Jakob, Pfeiffer, Reinhard, Rinker, Scheufler, Schmidt, Schűtz, Vogel, and Weil.
Surnames of Bruce's other close maternal relatives include Bippus, Braun, Brossman. BRUENEMAN, Burkey, BURKHARDT, Busenbark, Carman, Dulles, Ernst, Feldacker, Glasgow, Haid, Hennes, Holdefer, JOHNSON, Keck, Keller, KENNEDY, Knox, Koehs, McCLOSKEY, MILLER, Morner, Nuernberger, Oetterer, REIFF, Sanford, Schieke, Schisler, Schlottermiller, Schneider, Schuler, Seybold, Shirley, STRASSER, Wellner, and WISMEYER (and its variation in spelling, "Weismyer").
Surnames of Bruce's other close paternal relatives include Albert, Beatty, BEELER, BLUM, Castator, Cohee, Conroy, Cook, DENNIS, Danner, Detchon, Gailey, Galatro, Galloway, Hagan, Hansz, Hartman, Harvey, Hill, Hunter, Irvin, Jones, Kinzig, Klingler, KNOX, Lingle, Lovett, Motzer, Parks (originally "Parkes"), RAY, Richey, Richmond, Riley, Sortman, Stanley, STRICKER, and Weber.
FULLY CAPITALIZED above are the SURNAMES of Karen's and Bruce's relatives who are most frequently encountered on Find a Grave Memorials.

BRUCE MORTON GARVER (PhD in history, Yale University, 1971) is Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and has published works on Czech, Slovak, and Austrian history and on the history of Czech immigrants in the United States.
KAREN LOUISE (KING) GARVER (PhD in modern French history from UCLA, 1974) retired from the University of Nebraska at Omaha as an academic advisor in Continuing Studies and as an adjunct instructor of history.
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We work together on many "Find a Grave" Memorials and "bios" and are always delighted to receive well documented additions and corrections to any of the Find a Grave Memorials that we manage. When suggesting such improvements to us, please use the "Suggest A Correction" link on the Memorial for the particular person involved. Moreover, we are prepared to transfer any Memorial to a relative of the deceased so long as neither of us is related to the same person. When making any request for a transfer of Memorial management, please provide that Memorial's ID Number and an explicit documented description of your relationship to the person commemorated by the Memorial.
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In June 2016, we donated a large collection of captioned digital family photographs to Lane Public Library in Hamilton, seat of Butler County, Ohio, where most of Bruce's great-great grandparents, and all of his great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents resided during part of their lives. When distributing any of the above photos in digital or printed form, please give credit to Bruce & Karen Garver and & the Garver-Morton-Lotz-Bippus-McCloskey Family Digital Photograph Collection at Lane Public Library in Hamilton, Ohio. We have donated smaller collections of digital photos to the Bob McCloskey Museum of the Butler County Historical Society, to the Historic Byers-Evans House of the Colorado State Historical Society in Denver, and to the Jensen Public Library at Minden, seat of Kearney County, Nebraska, where Karen's great-grandparents Joseph Henry Sears (1840-1904) & Mary Frances (Koon) Sears (1854-1927) were among the first homesteaders to settle, during the year 1876, in Lowell Township of Kearney County, Nebraska. We have attached many captioned photos from the above four collections to pertinent Find a Grave Memorials. We encourage interested persons to do research at the above four and other splendid public non-profit institutions.
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We take a keen interest in Memorials to U.S. military veterans, particularly those Memorials dedicated to the many such veterans in our extended families. We wed on August 4, 1962, at Palos Verdes Estates, California, between Bruce's deployments as a LTJG to South Vietnam and elsewhere in East Asia aboard the USS GALLANT (MSO-489) in 1961-62 and aboard the USS NAVARRO (APA-215) in 1963-64. From November 1961 to April 1962, the GALLANT and four other ocean-going minesweepers helped the South Vietnamese Navy establish a barrier patrol between the port of Da Nang and the Paracel Islands to intercept shipments of supplies and reinforcements by sea to the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. During May 1963, the NAVARRO was one of five U.S. Navy ships exposed to "bacilli globigi", a relative of anthrax with the same M.O., during "Phase Autumn Gold" of "Project SHAD", whose top secret bacteriological & chemical warfare tests were carefully designed by the JFK administration, involved thousands of unwitting human subjects, and were declassified in August 2001.
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The surnames of Karen Louise (King) Garver's direct paternal ancestors are KING, Cluston, ROBINSON, and Hapgood. Those of Karen's direct maternal ancestors are SEARS, HENRY, Ayer, Chipman, Crowell, Fish, Howes, Howland, Joyce, Koon, LOCKHART, McFarland, McREYNOLDS, Montgomery, Stone, Thayer, and Tilley. Surnames of Karen's other close relatives include Cobb, Feldacker, Goss, Graham, Hartman, Hawbold, Jordan, Labedz, Lewis, Malcolm, Mason, Sharpe, and Wanmer.
The surnames of Bruce Morton Garver's direct paternal ancestors are GARVER, TROUTMAN (originally "Trautmann"), Bauer, BENDER, Brooks, Bower (probably originally spelled "Bauer"), Erhard (originally "Erhardt"), Fisher (originally "Fischer"}, Gnandt, HENNINGER (originally "Höninger"), JACKSON, Pierce, and REGG.
The surnames of Bruce's direct maternal ancestors are MORTON (originally the Finnish surname "Marttinen"), WALDEN, Clifton, Cooley, Rees, Walraven, Welsh, LOTZ, BRUCK (originally "Brűck"), DONGES, Hartmann, Jakob, Pfeiffer, Reinhard, Rinker, Scheufler, Schmidt, Schűtz, Vogel, and Weil.
Surnames of Bruce's other close maternal relatives include Bippus, Braun, Brossman. BRUENEMAN, Burkey, BURKHARDT, Busenbark, Carman, Dulles, Ernst, Feldacker, Glasgow, Haid, Hennes, Holdefer, JOHNSON, Keck, Keller, KENNEDY, Knox, Koehs, McCLOSKEY, MILLER, Morner, Nuernberger, Oetterer, REIFF, Sanford, Schieke, Schisler, Schlottermiller, Schneider, Schuler, Seybold, Shirley, STRASSER, Wellner, and WISMEYER (and its variation in spelling, "Weismyer").
Surnames of Bruce's other close paternal relatives include Albert, Beatty, BEELER, BLUM, Castator, Cohee, Conroy, Cook, DENNIS, Danner, Detchon, Gailey, Galatro, Galloway, Hagan, Hansz, Hartman, Harvey, Hill, Hunter, Irvin, Jones, Kinzig, Klingler, KNOX, Lingle, Lovett, Motzer, Parks (originally "Parkes"), RAY, Richey, Richmond, Riley, Sortman, Stanley, STRICKER, and Weber.
FULLY CAPITALIZED above are the SURNAMES of Karen's and Bruce's relatives who are most frequently encountered on Find a Grave Memorials.