Ardis Gardner was born on April 11, 1928, in Afton, Wyoming, to Wallace Ivan and Gladys (Bennion) Gardner. She married Dean Jay Manning on June 16, 1953, in Logan, Utah. They were the parents of Connie, JaNae, Lynn, and Roy. According to her obituary, Ardis was a public school teacher for 28 years and played the piano, violin, and guitar. She died on July 26, 2008, in West Point, Utah, at the age of 80, and was buried in West Point Cemetery in West Point, Utah.
Fact: Residence (1930) Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States
Fact: Residence (1935) Same House
Fact: Residence (1940) Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States
Fact: Obituary (2008) Idaho, United States
Fact: Burial (30 July 2008) West Point Cemetery, West Point, Davis, Utah, United States
Sources
1930 Census: "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7WQ-FHR : accessed 18 February 2022), Ardis Gardner in household of Wallace I Gardner, Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 5, sheet 7B, line 51, family 132, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2623; FHL microfilm 2,342,357.
1940 Census: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT4T-HYL : 4 January 2021), Ardis Gardner in household of Wallace I Gardner, Election District 5, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 12-5, sheet 4B, line 41, family 62, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4573.
Death: "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VM4Z-D2Q : 12 January 2021), Ardis Gardner Manning, 26 Jul 2008; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
Obituary: "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSX-91JN : 26 July 2017), Ardis Gardner Manning, 2008; Idaho Falls Regional Family History Center, Idaho Falls; FHL microfilm 100,464,681.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ardis by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
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