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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>
 
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>
 
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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Revision as of 18:48, 11 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.