Frances Louise Gardner

Graveside services for Louise Gardner will be held on Saturday, August 10, 2024, at 1:00pm at Ringling Cemetery in Ringling, OK. Visitation will be held on Friday, August 9, 2024, from 1:00pm-7:00pm with family receiving friends from 5:00pm-7:00pm at MMS-Payne Funeral Home. A celebration of Louise's life will be held on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 10:00am Westwood Church in Claremore, OK. 

Frances Louise (Collins) Gardner went home to be with Jesus, August 7, 2024, she was 89 years old. She was born October 18, 1934, to David Newton Collins and Velma Angeline (Crain) Collins, in Claremore, Oklahoma. Louise graduated from Claremore High School in 1952. After graduating, she left Claremore to go to California where her sisters told her there was work so she could make enough money to pay college tuition, as it was her ambition to go into teaching music. While there, she met the love of her life. She and Earnest Junior Gardner were married September 21, 1952. To this union was born four children, David, Philip, Anita, and Colleen. 

Her first love was making sure she was taking well care of her family as a housewife and mother. In later years, she would help the family financially by working publicly for Glen of Hollywood Studios doing photography as well as becoming a distributor for Shaklee Products. After returning to Claremore, she began working for Claremore Electric & Plumbing Supply. Her employment lasted seven years. She then went to work for Suburban Chevrolet as a warranty clerk. Life took her in a different direction when her two granddaughters needed to be cared for. She and Earnest began caring for Angela age two and Cynthia age one, later adopting them. 

Louise never corrected her children without also giving them biblical reasons why she thought they needed the correction. She says if there was only one thing she could say of Earnest it would be she was thankful he introduced her to the wondrous truth of God's Word. She loves the Word of God and her Jesus. Always depending on Him. 

Louise was preceded in death by her parents Newt and Velma Collins, husband Earnest Gardner, sons, David and Philip Gardner, great-grandson, Stryker Lopez, siblings, Edith Holland, Joyce Turman, Pauline Warren, Lucille Bernard, Bill Collins and brother in-law, James Gardner. Nephews James Holland, Billy Turman, Johnny and Vernon Marshall, nieces, Bonita Larson and Sonya Marshall. 

She is survived by daughter, Anita Horner and husband Tim of Claremore and Colleen Withers and husband Dale of White Settlement, Texas, daughters in-law, Rita Gardner of Lincoln, NE and Melba Gardner of Glenpool, and special adopted family Naaman Farah, wife Belinda and family of the U.A.E., 10 grandchildren, Brian Gardner, Rebecca Hagood (Wesley), Karen Berryman (Chris), Angela Gardner, Cynthia Gardner, Chandra Guthrie (Daniel) Deborah Dawson (Jason), Chris Robertson (Cari), Bethany Coke (Shaun) and Samantha Gardner, 9 great-grandchildren, Jorge and Amanda Gardner, Aidan Guthrie, Allissa and Pippin Berryman, Eli and Leilani Lopez, Henry Robertson and Nathan Hagood, sisters in-law, Betty Collins of Claremore, Sue Gardner of Lawton and a host of cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.