Norfolk Daily News;

Norfolk, Nebraska;

Friday, February 11, 2000;

Page 6;

CITY DEATHS AND FUNERALS

Wendell Garden

Services for Wendell N. Garden, 78, Norfolk, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, February 14, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Norfolk, with burial in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Norfolk. Military rites will be conducted by the U.S. Marine Corps of Omaha, American Legion Post 16 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1644, both of Norfolk. Visitation will be Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Howser-Fillmer Mortuary. Mr. Garden died Thursday, Feb. 10, at the Norfolk Veterans Home.

He was born May 28, 1921, to Paul and Lois (Seaburg) Garden at Macedonia, Iowa. He moved to Norfolk in 1933 and attended school in Norfolk. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1939. He was a prisoner of war from May 6, 1942, to Sep. 11, 1945. He was discharged from the military on Feb. 8, 1946, with the rank of platoon sergeant.

He married Shirley Williams on July 18, 1947, at Meadow Grove. He was self-employed with Gardens Automatic Coin Machine Co., which is now called Garden Coin.

He was past commander of American Legion Post 16 in Norfolk, a lifetime member of the VFW Winter-Munson Post 1644, a member of the Elks Lodge, Eagles Club and a supporter of the Norfolk Family YMCA.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley; a daughter, Wendi Kath of Norfolk; three sons and their wives, Jim and Randa and John and Natalie, all of Norfolk and Joe and Gina of Kearney; one brother, Richard of Norfolk; a sister, Janet Bridge of Norfolk and 12 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother.

Wendell Garden (1921)