Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 12:37:16 :
Independent Journal
Monday, August 4, 1975
Page 4
MAUD S. GARDNER
Maud S. Gardner, longtime community leader in San Geronimo Valley, died yesterday at a local hospital after a long illness. She was 90.
Daughter of Swiss immigrants, Mrs. Gardner was born on a farm in Nicasio. After graduation in 1903 from San Rafael High School, she married Edwin B. Gardner. The couple lived in Lagunitas and Woodacre where Gardner became superintendent for the Mailliard development, later the Lagunitas Development Co. and the San Geronimo Water Co.
Following her husband’s death in 1935, she took over the real estate and insurance businesses he had established in Woodacre and continued to operate Gardner Realty until she was in her mid-80s. She also continued to take university extension courses in her later years.
Mrs. Gardner served on the board of the San Geronimo Valley Association for 15 years, was a member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Marin County, a director of the Woodacre Improvement Club and the Marin County Board of Realtors and was a past worthy matron of Chapter 215, Order of Eastern Star.
She is survived by a daughter, Beryl G.Lane of Sunnyvale; a sister, Hattie Safstrom of San Anselmo; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son and two daughters.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Chapel of the Hills in San Anselmo. Inurnment will be at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael.
--- --- ---
A Death Notice in the same paper adds that she was also the mother of the late Edwin F. Gardner, Relda DeLaMontanya and Marjorie Bradley.
|
powered by SpudBoard |