DARLENE JOAN GARDNER

LAMAR-Services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Daniel Funeral Home for Darlene Joan Gardner, 92, Lamar, who died Monday, May 11, 2015, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin. Burial was in Howell Cemetery, in Milford.

Eastern Star Rites were held at 6 p.m. Friday, at the funeral home, followed by visitation.

Contributions may be made to Shriners Hospital for Children or VFW Post No. 3691, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include a son, Howard Dockery and wife Myra, Richardson, Texas; three daughters, Darla Grant and husband Dean, Lamar, Brenda Sprenkle and husband Harold, Jasper and Opal Dockery, Milford; grandchildren, Jack Truman, Milford, Melisa Irlandi, Port Charlotte, Fla., Kathy Vos and husband Hans, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Shannon Hill and husband Grant, Edmond, Okla., Skipper Montgomery and wife Tomesha, Cullman, Ala., Kevin Dockery and wife Leslie, Wylie, Texas, Mary Dockery, Nashville, Tenn., Lori Dockery and husband Scott, Iowa City, Iowa and Mandy Browning and husband Eddie, Lamar; 12 great-grandchildren and a brother, Earl Runion and wife Betty, Bethany, Okla.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Luther Runion, Jr., Paul Runion and Gerald Bud Runion and two sisters, Virginia Medlin and Margaret Costley.

Mrs. Gardner was born April 22, 1923, at Milford, to Luther Alexander and Leonora Fannie (Onwiler) Runion. She attended school at Milford. She had worked for Barton County Memorial Hospital as a nursing assistant. She was a member of Eastern Star and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary.

She married Bill Gardner on March 23, 1981. He died March 11, 2011.