Josephine C. Gardner
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D - February 5, 2012
Josephine C. Gardner, 95,
Grand Junction, died Feb. 2,
2012, at St. Mary’s Hospital.
A rosary will be said at 6 p.m.
Thursday at Callahan-Edfast
Mortuary. Services will be at
10 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church.
Ms. Gardner was a telephone
operator in communications.
Survivors include one son,
James of Sanderson, Kan.; four
daughters, Josephine Boyer and
Janice Gardner, both of Grand
Junction, Mary Chamberlain
of Taft, Calif. and Marguerite
Millerberg of West Jordan,
Utah; one brother, Charles Wernette
of Clay Center, Kan.; three
sisters, Clara Madden of Lompoc,
Calif., Lois Ann Thompson
of San Clemente, Calif. and
Marguerite Dowd of Grand
Junction; 14 grandchildren; and
eight great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions to
Hospice & Palliative Care of
Western Colorado, 3090B North
12th St., Grand Junction 81506.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 5B - February 7, 2012
J o s e p h i n e “ D o d i e ” C e c i l i a
G a r d n e r , o f G r a n d J u n c t i o n ,
passed away from natural causes
on February 2. She was 95 years
old.
Josephine was born January 16,
1917 at home on Huntress Street
in Clay Center, Kansas. Her parents,
John and Mary Wernette, raised eight children (three sons and
five daughters). Josephine graduated from Clay Center High School
and worked for Southwestern Bell as a telephone operator. She married
Francis Weaver during the Second World War. Francis passed
away two years later in a plane accident. They had one son. Josephine
moved back home with her parents where she then met and
married Glen Gardner. They moved to Grand Junction where they
raised eight children. “Dodie” was a faithful Catholic her entire life.
She is survived by one brother; three sisters; one son; four daughters;
14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Josephine lived a wonderful life. She was a devoted homemaker
and had many artistic talents. Truly loved by all, she had a vivacious
sense of humor and taught us all to be good to one another.
A R o s a r y i s s c h e d u l e d f o r F e b r u a r y 9 t h a t 6 : 0 0 p .m. a t
Callahan-Edfast Mortuary. A funeral service is scheduled for February
10th at 10:00 a.m. at Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church, 230 N 3rd
St, Grand Junction. Internment will take place at Calvary Cemetery
directly after the service. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made
in Josephine’s name to Hospice and Palliative Care of Western
Colorado.
