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Image:martha 23.jpg|<center>Greenville School District bus driver Chuck Burgess delivering three of the Gardiner kids home in about 1955. David, Laura, and Donna. The road was still gravel back then. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 23.jpg|<center>Greenville School District bus driver Chuck Burgess delivering three of the Gardiner kids home in about 1955. David, Laura, and Donna. The road was still gravel back then. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 24.jpg|<center> This is Ralph Gardiner’s Allis Chalmers WC tractor being “driven” by David and Donna Gardiner perhaps around 1948 or 1949. Mom (Margaret) is looking on at the extreme right. Nice picture of some of the farm buildings also. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 24.jpg|<center> This is Ralph Gardiner’s Allis Chalmers WC tractor being “driven” by David and Donna Gardiner perhaps around 1948 or 1949. Mom (Margaret) is looking on at the extreme right. Nice picture of some of the farm buildings also. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 25.jpg|<center>Another WW II photo. This is Belva Gardiner standing outside of the 1st General Hospital with her cousin Harry
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(Buddy) Gillespie (from California). Buddy was a paratrooper and had been part of the festivities in Bastogne
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during Christmas, 1944. He was also part of a rather contested crossing of the Rhine. This is after VE day and
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he is awaiting transfer to the asian theater.</center>
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Image:martha 26.jpg|<center>This is Belva Gardiner (left) and one of her fellow nurses (Gwen Bellam, I think) at the Ist General Hospital just outside of Paris. This is in 1945, just about the time the war in Europe ended. Photo ccourtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 27.jpg|<center>This is a photo of the Gardiner’s hauling trefoil hay around 1940. Lois and Martha are standing by the load, while Ralph is on the doodlebug (or “bug”). Family lore has the “bug” being fabricated in the Hanney shop (in Westerlo) out of old car parts. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 28.jpg|<center>Martha Gardiner (Slingerland) and Ralph Gardiner with Ralph’s calves, about 1940.Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
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Revision as of 20:33, 12 January 2016

Moak/Gardiner house. This is one of the Moak houses on Airport road outside of Westerlo. The date is around 1902 – looks like they had a fairly respectable snowfall that winter! Back then, the Moak families had several houses around what is now the airport. Standing on the porch is Adelbert with his mom Maggie Haines Moak. Adelbert’s father, Manley, owned the place at the time. Manley Moak and family moved into town some years later and the house was used for storage. This changed in 1926 when the Russell Gardiner family, from White Earth North Dakota, purchased the place and moved in. To date, the Gardiner family has lived here for nearly 90 years. Martha Gardiner Slingerland, spent most of her childhood here.