Glen G. Gardner

Glen Gilbert Gardner, 56, of 2480 Road G, died at 6:30 p.m. Monday at his home. A patient at Veterans Hospital for six mouths, he had gone home for the weekend. Mr. Gardner had lived in Grand Junction 21 years, formerly employed as a mechanic on heavy duty machinery. A veteran of seven years service with the Marines, Mr. Gardner was captured at Wake Island and spent 4 1/2 years in a prisoner of war camp during World War II. He was bom April 20, 1917, in Tangepahoe Parish, Louisiana, and spent his childhood in Clifton and Clay Center, Kan. He attended Kansas State University. He married Josephine Wernette at Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 13, 1947, and the Gardners lived there until 1952. He was a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Gardner are four daughters, Mrs. George James of St. Albans, W.Va., Mrs. Tim Higgs of Golden, Mary and Marguerite Gardner, both at home; three sons, Gregory of the Air Force, stationed at Mountain Home, Ida.; James and Gerard, both of Grand Junction; three brothers, three sisters and five grandchildren.

Source: The Daily Sentinel; Grand Junction, Colorado; 22 May 1973.

Glen Gardner (1917)