Charles Edward Gardiner

Sergeant

United States Army

Charles Edward Gardiner, the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Gardiner, was born in Iowa on 13 January 1918.  He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church.

Charles attended Corse School and was a 1936 graduate of Burlington (Iowa) High School.  After graduation he worked at the Murray Iron Works Company as a machinist.

He married the former Henrietta Peterman on 11 April 1937, in Canton, Missouri.

Charles entered the service the latter part of August 1944 and took his training at Camp Robinson, Arkansas.  He left for the European Theater of Operations on 5 January 1945, serving with the 8th Infantry Regiment.  In a War Department telegram, Henrietta learned that Charles was Killed-In-Action in Germany on 3 March 1945.

Charles was survived by his wife; two sons, Charles Edward and Ronald; his parents; one brother, George; and two sisters, Phyllis Melburg of Burlington and Frances Nafstad of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sergeant Charles Edward Gardiner, United States Army, is buried in Burlington’s Aspen Grove Cemetery.

Source of information:

1.  The Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette, 16 March 1945, page 1.

2.  Des Moines County Iowa Veterans Buried with Markers, compiled by the Des Moines County Genealogical Society, 1984.

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