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Image:martha 15.jpg|<center>Gardiner family in White Earth ND. Martha (about one year old) is sitting in the lap of her older sister Belva, back in 1925. The family dog Nancy is looking on. About a year later they would be on their way East - a Journey which terminated in Westerlo. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 15.jpg|<center>Gardiner family in White Earth ND. Martha (about one year old) is sitting in the lap of her older sister Belva, back in 1925. The family dog Nancy is looking on. About a year later they would be on their way East - a Journey which terminated in Westerlo. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 16.jpg|<center>Belva Gardiner at her duty station in England prior to D-Day. Early 1944. She was an Army nurse. A few months later, they established the First General Army Hospital just outside of Paris. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 16.jpg|<center>Belva Gardiner at her duty station in England prior to D-Day. Early 1944. She was an Army nurse. A few months later, they established the First General Army Hospital just outside of Paris. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 17.jpg|<center>It's not every day you come across a picture of your father (Ralph Gardiner) at 5 years old with a goat — in White Earth, North Dakota. Photo courtesy of Dave Gardiner</center>
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Image:martha 18.jpg|<center>A nasty ice storm on the Gardiner farm around 1940. It looks like the power lines are a bit distressed. I really like that wagon running gear also. You don’t see them like that today! Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 19.jpg|<center>The Gardiner kids soon after arriving in Westerlo, around 1927. Ralph, Russell, Belva, and Martha. Lois, the youngest family member, had not yet arrived. One of the farm buildings is visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 20.jpg|<center>A. R. Gardiner (my grandfather) with his horses and cultivator heading out of the farm driveway to cultivate corn. Summer of 1937. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 21.jpg|<center>Lois and Martha Gardiner standing in their driveway (looking East) around 1940 on the family farm in Westerlo. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 22.jpg|<center>Ralph and Margaret Gardiner on the farm house lawn, around 1965. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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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>
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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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Image:martha 29.jpg|<center>Gardiner farm is just visible through the trees in the upper left. Around 1950.Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 30.jpg|<center>front to back-Laura, Larry and David Gardiner, photo courtesy of David Gardiner</center>
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Image:martha 31.jpg|<center>David Gardiner, photo courtesy of David Gardiner</center>
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Image:martha 32.jpg|<center>Gardiner family, photo courtesy of David Gardiner</center>
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Image:martha 33.jpg|<center>Gardiner family, photo courtesy of David Gardiner</center>
 
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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.