Enlistment May 21, 1898
Discharge October 30, 1898

Burial was in the Manning Cemetery and pallbearers were members of Emil Ewoldt Post 22, American Legion.

Mr. Gardner, who was 57 years old, died after a long illness. He was taken front his home at Dallas to the Veterans' Hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in October 1937, and was removed from there to the Hines Memorial Hospital in Chicago in December 1937.

Born in Manning, July 23, 1880, to Julius W. and Jennie H. (Ross) Gardner, Ross lived here until he was eleven years old, when the family moved to Plainview, Nebraska.

Three years later they went to Gowrie, Iowa.

In his youth, Mr. Gardner was a news boy on the train between Gowrie and Des Moines. This was the beginning of his railway service, in which he continued in various capacities.

In 1898, he enlisted for service in the Spanish-American War at Des Moines with Company E, Fifty-second Infantry, Iowa Volunteers. After his honorable discharge he returned to Manning for further schooling.

Mr. Gardner was married to Myrtle Tanner of Dallas, Texas, who died in 1929.

Surviving are two brothers, Fred and Bert H. Gardner, of Gowrie, and one sister, Mrs. George Frankforter (Mamie) of Manning. Mrs. Frankforter spent the last week in Chicago because of her brother's illness.