Leo Willard GARDNER

Notes:

The obit in the November 28, 1953, edition of the FFDJ notes that he was “at one time owner of the Fergus Falls Tribune.” His father’s obit (August of 1936) said that Leo was publisher of the Fergus Falls Tribune.

Leo married Lena THIEL in Mar 1938. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a farmer in Spink Twp, Union County, South Dakota, in the 1900 census.

He was a liveryman in a livery stable in the city of Vermillion, Clay County, South Dakota, in the 1910 census.

He was a farmer in Western Twp, Otter Tail County, in the 1920 census. At that time, the oldest two children were no longer living at home but the younger two still were.

In the 1930 census, he was a widower living with his sister’s family (Josie and Harvey Welch) on their farm in Sioux Valley Twp, Union County, South Dakota. Eugene was a poultryman. Also living with the family was Eugene and Josie’s 80 year-old mother Louise.

An article in the Minneapolis Tribune, 31 Aug 1936, said that Eugene died suddenly from a heart attack in Des Moines. He had been visiting his sister, Mrs. Harvey Welch, Akron, Iowa, and was en route to the Iowa state fair when he died.

Died:
one source says Clay County, South Dakota

Eugene married Amelia Ann HERREN. Amelia was born on 18 Feb 1872 in Wisconsin; died on 26 Mar 1926 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She had had four children, all still living, at the time of the 1910 census.