Alice Clawson Gardiner, wife of our beloved editor of the Sabbath Recorder, has been called to the heavenly home. There are many who have known her and have known of her work who will feel a personal and a denominational loss. All readers of the Sabbath Recorder will feel a deep sympathy for Doctor Gardiner in his bereavement and loneliness.
Her long illness and the absence of the editor who has been with her at the Sanitarium, Hornell, N. Y., and at the home of her brother, Professor Cortez R. Clawson, Alfred, N. Y., have been mentioned recently in the editorial columns. Her illness and Doctor Gardiner's four-month-watch at her bedside were brought to an end early Friday morning, April 25, when she passed away.
Mrs. Gardiner was the daughter of Randolph and Rebecca Clawson, and she was born at New Market, N. J., August 13, 1861. There she spent her early life and with her family was associated with the Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church. When a young woman she became a member of that church, and throughout her life she lived in faithful adherence to the Seventh Day Baptist Denomination. Her membership was transferred to North Loup, Neb. in 1906, and to the Plainfield Church in 1907.
She was educated in the public schools of New Jersey, in Peddie Institute, Hightstown, N. J., and in Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y. For ten years she was a teacher in a school for young ladies, New Brunswick, N. J., in the public schools of New Jersey, and in Saybrook Hall School, Saybrook, Conn. For more than ten years she taught in Salem College, Salem, W. Va., making a total of over twenty years spent in teaching.
On October 19, 1903, she was married to Rev. Theodore L. Gardiner. Since that time Doctor Gardiner's interests as president of Salem College, pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, North Loup, Neb., and editor of the Sabbath Recorder, have been her interests, and she has been a very devoted and competent helper in all his work.
Of her own family she is survived by two brothers and two sisters: Professor Cortez R. Clawson, Alfred, N. Y.; Walter Clawson, Dunellen, N. J.; Miss Loretta Clawson, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mrs. George Weigand, Califon, N. J.
The farewell service was conducted at the home in Plainfield on Monday afternoon, April 27. Interment was made at Hillside Cemetery. J. L. S.
