Obituary - Myrtie Gardner

Myrtie Gardner Died

Washburn - Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtie E. Gardner, 82, Washburn, who died in a Bismarck hospital at 4:25 a.m. Friday, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday from the Hope Lutheran Church, Makoti. Burial will be in the Makoti Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Rufus Jefferson, Herbert Markwardt, Edfward Dobrinski, Tommy Lampert, Roy Tollefson and Howard Fisher. Mrs. Gardner had been in ill health two years and in the hospital one week.

A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. I. Rosborough, she was born in Strawberry Point, Iowa, Jan. 7, 1882. As a young girl she moved with her parents to Rock Rapids, Iowa, where she attended school and on July 29, 1904, married Donald G. Gardner there. After their marriage they farmed in the Hancock, Minn., community until 1912 when they homesteaded seven miles south-west of Makoti. After her husband's death in 1919 she moved into Makoti and worked for many years as a telephone operator for the Fort Berthold Telephone Co. In 1940 she left to make her home with her daughter in Spokane, Wash., and in 1963 she came to Washburn to live with her son.

She was a past Oracle of the Royal Neighbors of America at Makoti.

Survivors include one son, Don Gardner, Washburn; one daughter, Mrs. Joe (Lorene) Reetz, Spokane; one brother, A. J. Rosborough, Minneapolis; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Davis, Seattle, Wash., and Miss Leone Rosborough, Dickinson; three grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. Two sisters also preceded her in death.

The Henne Funeral Home, Washburn, has charge of arrangements.

Source: Minot Daily News, Saturday, February 22, 1964

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