Mrs Alice Ann Burton Gardner passed away at the Star Valley LDS Hospital, Feb 28 1957 at 8:40 p.m. She was 81 1/2 years old. Cause of death was listed as pneumonia and complications due to old age.
Funeral services were held in the Afton First Ward Chapel Monday Mar 4, under the direction of Bp Gray Hillstead of the Osmond Ward.
Mrs Gardner is survived by her husband Clarence Gardner, and two children, Mrs Marian G. Fluckiger, Bedford, and Kenneth Grant Gardner of Chico Calif. Survivors also include 11 grandchildren, three sisters Josephine B. Bagley, Washington D.C., Rachel B. Ballantyne, Logan; Sarah Ellen Foulger, Ogden; her brothers Thomas F. Burton, Wilford F. Burton, George F. Burton and C.F. Burton all of Star Valley, Robert I Burton Salt Lake City and John F. Burton, Garland Utah.
Alice Ann Burton Burton Gardner was born Sept 2, 1875 at Ogden, Utah the daughter of William Walton Burton and Sarah Ann Fielding Burton.
Her early childhood home was Ogden, but she came to Star Valley with her parents in the summer of 1886. The family first lived on their "claim" in the south end of the valley were Smoot now is, but as winter came they moved to Afton on the advice of Bp. Charles D. Cazier. They established themselves on a farm where the Wyoming State Experimental Farm now is.
She attended the first school in Afton, which was a very small log room with a dirt roof and dirt floor. "When it was muddy overhead, it was muddy underfoot", she said in her own life sketch.
That winter the men in the community got out logs and built a new school house on the southeast corner of the lot where the present grade school building now stands. It was used for school, church, dance and recreation. When she had completed the work given in the school there, she went to Ogden where she attended the Weber Academy.
Quoting from a sketch of her life prepared by her sister-in-law, Maud Burton: "As a young lady, Alice was an attractive blonde tall and sweet. she was known as the song bird" in the first choir organized in the Afton Ward. She always took part in the parades on the 4th and 24th of July celebrations, which were the important community occasions in those early days. On one occasion she was the Goddess of Liberty, which she portrayed beautifully."
She was always a willing and faithful church worker. During her life she served as Sunday School teacher, counselor in the MIA, member of the Stake Relief Society Board, counselor and secretary in the Stake Relief Society, and a counselor and teacher in the Primary.
She married Clarence Gardner in the Salt Lake Temple Oct 8, 1897. Shortly after their marriage her husband received a call for an LDS mission to the Eastern States. She taught school and worked in her father's store to assist him while on his mission. While he was on his mission, their first baby was born, a son who died at birth.
At the close of his mission she joined her husband and came home with him.
They lost two other sons, Alton, who died an accidental death at the age of 15, and Rollin Elworth, who died in young manhood, leaving his son Reed in their care.
Following a trip to Hawaii with her husband she had a serious illness at the home of her son, Kenneth in Calif. Since that time she has been in frail health but in her quiet, sweet way she continued to serve her family to the end.

Gardner, Alice Ann Burton (28 Feb 1957)Star Valley Independent

Alice Ann BURTON is the daughter of William Walton BURTON and Sarah Ann FIELDING
Alice Ann BURTON married Clarence GARDNER 8 Oct 1897 in Salt Lake City, S-Lk, UT