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Show Death Takes William Gardner, Local Railroad Conductor William Benjamin Gardner, 59, conductor for the Union Pacific Railroad company, died at the Iron County hospital Saturday of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was stricken four days earlier while on duty at the ruilroad yards. Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Wednesday at the Masonic temple in Salt Lake City, and burial was made in the Masonic plot there. Mr. Gardner was born in Iowa on June 18, 1889. a son of Edwin K. and Emma Trueblood Gardner. Gard-ner. He married Margaret De-vault De-vault Storey on January 8, 1921. A railroader most of his adult life, he had been a conductor tfor the Union Pacific for more than 25 years. For a number of years he was assigned to the Salt Lake City-Milford division of the Union Pacific before coming to Cedar City. He was a Scottish Rite Mason and had been active in Utah Masonic Ma-sonic circles for several years. Mr. Gardner is survived by his widow, Cedar City; a stepson, four brothers and sisters, Mrs. Maude Watkins, Mena, Ark.; Mrs. Florence' Pipkins, Shreveport, La.; Ed Gardner. Hannah, Alberta, Canada, and Arthur Gardner, Fayetteville, Arkansas. |