John Abraham Gardner

Ogden, Utah— John A. Gardner, 74 of 923 Patterson Street, died Sunday at 7:15 p.m. in an Ogden hospital after an extended illness. Mr. Gardner was born August 27th, 1878, in Mendon, Cache County, a son of Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Coon Gardner. As a young man he was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company as a section foreman in Mendon and moved to Ogden in 1925, continuing to work with the railroad. Since his retirement several years ago, he had served as caretaker of the Ogden Seventeenth and Twenty-third Ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the time of his death, he was an active member of the Ogden Seventeenth L.D.S. Ward. He was a member of the high priests' quorum and had served as president of the high priest group. He was active in genealogical work. As a young man, he served a mission for the church in Virginia from 1906 to 1907 and again filled a church mission to Virginia in 1940. While residing in Mendon he was counselor in the bishopric and later served as Bishop of Mendon Ward. In July, 1907, he married Mamie Sorensen in the Logan L.D.S. Temple. She died in Mendon in 1913. He married Betty Tuck in Mendon in 1918. She died in Ogden in 1939. On August 16th, 1950 he married Laura W. Frew in Ogden. Surviving are his widow; one daughter, Mrs. Vivian Reiva, Ogden; four stepsons and two step-daughters, Raymond, James, Dean and Robert Frew, Ogden; Mrs. John (Myrle) Turner, Riverton; Mrs.Ronald (Mabel) Green, Sunset, Davis County; two grandchildren; Two brothers and five sisters, Frederick A. Gardner, Yuba City, California; Hugh R. Gardner, Colusa California; Mrs. Sarah H. Larson, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Orson (Maude) Hancock and Mrs. Chauncey L. (Josephine) Sorensen, Malad City, Idaho; Mrs. Hubert (Mabel) Bowen, Torrence, California; Mrs. Chauncey C. (May) Payne, Pocatello, Idaho. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at eleven a.m. in Ogden Seventeenth Ward Chapel by J. Delmont McDonald, bishop. Friends may call at Lindquist and Sons' mortuary Chapel Tuesday from six to nine p.m. and Wednesday until 10:30 a.m. Burial will be in Mendon Cemetery. ~Newspaper Not Listed.