Virginia Gardiner

Notes:

Assumed to be her listing on the SSDI:

Virginia KLOPP Birth Date: 7 Oct 1914 Death Date: 18 Jun 1991 Social Security Number: 368-12-7548 State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: Michigan

Notes:

Cass City Chronicle
Thursday, November 18, 1982
Page Twelve

Edward Gardiner Dies

Edward B. Gardiner, 94, of Broken Rocks, near Port Austin, died Nov. 8 at Huron Memorial Hospital, Bad Axe, following a brief illness.

He was born Oct. 14, 1888 in Scandia, Kan., the son of Pinckney and Annie (Franklin) Gardiner.

Edward Gardiner and Viola MURRAY were married in Kansas City, Mo. She preceded him in death May 9, 1940.

He married Mary E. Striffler Oct. 1, 1941, in Geneva, Ohio.

The couple lived the past 26 years at Broken Rock.

Gardiner was the superintendent of the Detroit House of Correction, retiring in 1956.

He was a life member of Raytown No. 391, F and AM, the Scottish Rite Bodies, Kansas City, Mo.; the Moslem Shrine Temple, Detroit, and a member of the Huron Shrine Club.

Gardiner was the senior active member of the Bad Axe Rotary Club and a former Detroit Old Newsboy member.

Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Peter (Virginia) KLOPP, Farmington Hills; one grandson; three great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Beth RUEDY, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Lee Anna BENJAMIN, Santa Monica, Calif., and several nieces and nephews.

Two brothers, Marion and Charles, and two sisters, Floy and Ida, preceded him in death.

Funeral services were held last Thursday afternoon at the MacAlpine Funeral Home, Bad Axe. Burial was in the Colfax Cemetery mausoleum.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2008)

(Research):Census Listings:

1930 Census
Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit City, Ward 15, Block 262
Enumerated April 11, 1930
ED 82-462 SD 22 Sheet 22A
1276-17-45
Gardiner, Edward B Hd R 45 M W 41 M 25 Kansas Kansas Kansa
s Social Worker House of Corrections
Gardiner, Viola Wf F W 42 M 26 Wisc Wisc Wisc
Gardiner, Virginia Dtr F W 15 S Mo Kan Wisc
Yax, Edna Lodger F W 39 M Ill Ill Oh Stenographer Tea Store

Edward married Viola Murray about 1910 in Missouri. Viola was born about 1888 in Wisconsin; died on 9 May 1940 in Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]