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Show ! gfliis SOUTH UTAH COLONIZER ; pioneer of St. George and Pine Valley Passed Away U Salt Lake City Folding Fol-ding Long Ulness Funeral services for William . dner, 85, a pioneer o St. r "rge and Pine Valley, who - - i Thursday evening at Salt ?'" e City following a five week ' 'fje.-s from bronchial pneu- ' 1'n'a ''ere held here in the .'bernacle Sunday under the diction di-ction of the East ward, Bisk-W Bisk-W J. Reichmann- presiding. ! "he opening number was- a .-oral duet by Mr. and Mrs. ; ;eorge P. Lytle, "The End of , perfect Day"-prayer, Day"-prayer, Joseph T. Atkin. The speakers were J eter Snow, T (orraer bishop of Pine Valley, Joseph K. Kicholes, George P. Whitehead, M. Ward Moody of Delta, who spent six years with Mr Gardner in the New Zealand Zea-land mission; M:athew Cowley of Salt Lake City, also a former for-mer missionary in New Zealand, and John H. Cottam. Musical numbers included a vocal solo by Dil worth M. Snow; trio, "I'll Go Where You Want Jle' to Go", Mary McGregor, Mona Reber and Marie Cox, and a solo, "Peace I Leave With You", Mrs. Mamie Paxman. The benediction was by D. ii H. Morris. (Continued on page 2) WM. GARDNER (Continued from page 1) William Gardner was born March 22, 1845 in a covered wagon near what is now Bonaparte, Bona-parte, Iowa, while his parents, Robert and Jane McEwen Gardner Gard-ner were on their way to Utah. They arrived in Salt Lake valley val-ley on October 1, 18 47, and immediately im-mediately established a residence resi-dence there, accumulating within with-in a short time fine farms and homes. They lived in the city for fifteen fif-teen years when they were call ed ana outfitted by President Brigham Young to aid in settling settl-ing the Dixie mission. They lived liv-ed in St. George for a time and from here were called to settle Pine Valley, on account of their thrift, industry and ability to get tilings going. As a young man he was married mar-ried to Amanda Burgess in the endowment house at Salt Lake City, and to them two daughters daugh-ters were born. She died eleven years later, and he was married to Mary Jane Thomas, a daughter daugh-ter of the first pioneer of Pine Valley. To the second union three sons and four daughters were born, however the boys all died in infancy, the first two being stricken at the same time with cholera and famine and hurried in the same grave and the third, which was an infant in-fant of two weeks when hp ln- on the second mission to New Zealand, lived to be fourteen months old and died while he was still away of spinal meningitis. menin-gitis. The loss of his sons was always al-ways a great sorrow to Mr Gardner, and he took to his heart all boys in an effort to fill the void. Missionaries who were with him in the south sea islands is-lands learned to love him as a father for his kindness and patience with them, and all young men wpr hi - :, "'-j l'cLicti interest. in-terest. He was a counselor to the bishop of Pine Valley prior to leaving for his fim in 1SS4. He was the first to represent Pine Valley ward in I ne mission field, and also in the first group to open the -New Zealand mission. On his return four years later he was ordained bishop of Pine Valley 'ith the late Joseph Burgess as first counselor and Jeter Snow second counselor On May 10, 1S93 he' left on , a second New Zealand mission, and this time spent three years and eight months away. The latter half of the time he was ij.csiueiii, 01 tne mission, and was called again in 1913, after he was a man near seventy years, on a third mission to the islands where he served two years as president. In 1904 he moved to St. George, being called here on a temple mission, and has lived here since. On his return, from the third mission in 1915 he was ordained St. George stake patriarch and was also made a I regular temple hand which po- "e iinea until 1927. Other church positions he has held have been superintendent of the Pine Valley Sunday School and stake superintendent of religion classes. The natives on the islands called him their white cheif and when he left them they showered him with presents of all kinds. The chief of the islands is-lands gave him a picture of himself, a gold toothpick and a gold pen as well as steamer rugs, chairs, shells and other curios. He was interested in nature, and while away collected collect-ed a valuable assortment of canes from 100 different kinds of woods, ferns and grasses, seeds nnd lo,r nr, - uiucn or this collection was given to the Dixie Dix-ie College. His interest in young people was displayed in a very concrete con-crete form by his work in the construction of the Dixie College Col-lege building, then established !l!he st- George stake acad- emy, gifts to the scliool"7 the endowment of the :-liam :-liam and Jane Gardner schoC ship fund which nrovklw ,' tion expenses for one worn student each year. In December 1926 his . ond wife died, and his daugt-ter, daugt-ter, Beth, the only unman' member of the family at uV time came home from the Hawaiian Ha-waiian mission to take care t": him. One and one-half year-ago year-ago he went to Salt Lake Ci'i to stay with his daughter, ); Effie Twiggs, at whose hom. he died. Surviving are the followin; daughters: Mrs. Effie Twiggs, Mrs. Amanda Miller and JIrs Gwen. Woolsey of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Mahala Bracken, Central; Cen-tral; Mrs. Elizabeth SchmuU, St. George, and Mrs. Merle To!-ton, To!-ton, Fresno, Calif., also V. grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Other survivors are six brothers, broth-ers, Osro and Royal Gardner ot Delta, Nathanial and R. B. Gardner, Gard-ner, Cedar City, Ruben, St George, and Thomas H. Gardner, Gard-ner, Inglewood, Calif., a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Helm, Murray; four half-brothers, George C, David, Angus, and Amos ol Lund, Nevada, and two half-sisters, half-sisters, Mrs. Alice Snow, Si. George, and Mrs. Fred Harrison. Harri-son. Interment was in the Si. George cemetery, but as soon as weather conditions improve, the body will be disintered and taken to Pine Valley for burial beside his wives, sons, and parents. |