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Show S.Sgt. Dean Gardner Has Interesting Heredity By MRS. VERE BECK STROM Staff Sergeant Dean Gardner, who has spent the past 13 months in Colorado Springs in the armed services, spent a week here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Gardner, on furlough, returning to his post on Sunday. He was accompanied to the bus station in Cedar City by his parents and sisters, Maurine and Lois. Dean, like the "crown prince of a royal house", is an especially important member of the Gardner family since he is the only grandson grand-son of his grandfather, Reuben Gardner, to bear the family name. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. .Rueben Gardner, were the parents par-ents of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. The eldest son, Reuben Jr., was killed when in his teens by being thrown from a horse; the second son, Dr. Clarence Clar-ence Gardner of Oakland, Calif., had no children, though he was married twice; the third son, Mason, died unmarried in middle age; the fourth son, Erastus S., married and became the father of four children, two sons and two daughters. Dean was the eldest child the last one died of pneumonia pneu-monia in infancy just as the present pres-ent cures for the disease were being be-ing discovered. The fifth son, Murray, died while in early childhood, child-hood, thus leaving no children, making one of 30 grandchildren, the only one to carry on the name. Another sidelight on the family history is that their daughter, Mrs. Eva Jenson had two pair of twins, 3 boys and 1 girl. The boys are all in the Army and the girl is training to become a nurse. Five of the Gardner grandsons grand-sons are in the Army; Max Jen-son Jen-son is in Sicily, he being in the first group to land there. He was in Africa during the whole campaign. |