BEDFORD DAILY TIMES BEDFORD, INDIANA JANUARY 21, 1935 DEATH COMES TO CLAUDE GARDNER Former Railroad Conductor Here Succumbed At Home Of Sister In Ottumwa, Iowa Bedford relatives of Claude B. Gardner, for a number of years employed as conductor by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company, were advised Sunday of his death Saturday evening at 4:45 o'clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Bess Bearicks at Ottumwa, Iowa after an illness with complications. He had been in failing health for two years. The body is being returned here for burial and will arrive Tuesday afternoon at 4:13 over the Monon railroad. Mr. Gardner went to Ottumwa last November 1st to visit his sister. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Roach funeral Chapel with burial following in the Springville Methodist Episcopal Cemetery. Mr. Gardner was born on August 17, 1883 near Owensburg to Polk and Eliza George Gardner and at the time of his death was 51 years, 5 months and 2 days old. He was married in Bedford on February 2, 1909 to Mabel Beavers. He attended the Bedford First Baptist Church. Besides the sister , he i! s survived by two daughters, Mrs. Juanita Gardner, Eureka, Kansas and Mrs. Rose Ramsey, Bloomington; one brother William Gardner, Whiting; two other sisters Mrs. George Leary, Portland Oregon and Mrs. W. E. Bowman, Bedford; and one grandchild.