

- Clayton William Loucks Jr. (July 8, 1914-April 6, 1987)
- Mary Kathleen Loucks (February 1916-August 16, 1916)
- Donald Loucks (February 23, 1917-February 23, 1979) married Edith Grace Fennell, formerly Woods (October 10, 1911-August 29, 1981)









- Unnamed Baby Girl Gardiner (stillborn July 29, 1923)
- Frederick Douglas (Doug) Gardiner (August 17, 1924- July 15, 2005) married Sylvia Gwendolyn Bridgehouse (February 25, 1923 – August 25, 2015)
- Jean Winnifred Gardiner (November 18, 1927-October 5, 2019) married John Leonard McPhail (November 25, 1927-December 3, 1996)
- Mary Pauline Gardiner (September 2, 1929- April 16, 1976)
- Charles (Chuck) Samuel Gardiner (September 25, 1933 – February 19, 1987) married Dolores Anderson
- Unnamed Baby Boy Gardiner (stillborn November 10, 1932)




Clayton Loucks Jr.
Clayton Loucks Jr. was struck with “sleeping sickness” at about age 7, likely a related outcome of the 1918 Flu Pandemic. His mobility was severely restricted as a result of encephalitis, and he suffered from other health issues as well. He never married and spent much of his adult life in hospital. He died on April 6, 1987, and is also interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. (This image shows what Clayton looked like in life. It was created using the MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia app.)
More About My Gardiner Family
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Sarah Gardiner
Sarah Gardiner’s prospects were bright. Although she didn’t marry, she trained to be a schoolmistress. Sadly, her life was tragically interrupted after a bike ride in September 1902.
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Samuel Gardiner Jr. and Catharine Jones
Samuel Gardiner Jr. married Catharine Jones on December 20, 1854, in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, Wales. They had 12 children in the next 15 years.
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Dorothea “Frances” Gardiner Bowen and William Guy “Red” Hill
Frances Dorothea Bowen married William Guy “Red” Hill on June 12, 1935 in Tonawanda, New York. She was dead less than three months later.
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Catharine Gardiner and Ralph Horatio Sherwood
Catharine married Ralph Horatio Sherwood on July 25, 1910 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Their story is marked by tragedy.
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Frederick Samuel Gardiner and Mary Anne Whelan (and Clayton Loucks)
After being widowed with two young boys, Mary Anne Whelan remarried quickly, on September 26, 1922, to Frederick Samuel Gardiner.
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Robert Martin Gardiner and Laura Eleanor Bovaird (and Nellie Werner)
Robert Martin Gardiner emigrated from England to Canada where he married Laura Eleanor Bovaird on May 18, 1892.
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Mystery Solved – Mary Ann Whelan died October 11, 1957
It took a long, slow troll of the Hamilton Spectator, but I was able to locate the full obituary for my great-grandmother, Mary Ann Whelan, in the October 12, 1957 edition of the Hamilton Spectator. (More on Mary Ann here.) It reads: Mrs. Frederick Gardiner, the former Mary Ann Whelan,
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When Did Mary Ann Whelan Die?
I found amongst my grandmother’s photo collection the obituary for her mother. I knew she died in 1957 (as I’ve got a record of the grave site), but wasn’t clear on the actual date.
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Leading Aircraftman Leonard Joseph Gray
Leading Aircraftman Leonard Joseph Gray was killed in a tragic, preventable accident that led to changes in the way night flying is conducted in the military.
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Hilda Mary Gardiner and Frederick George Bowen
On June 30, 1922, 34-year-old Hilda Mary Gardiner married 24-year-old Frederick Geroge Bowen in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.