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Rex Gard
Dec 24, 1916 - Oct 12, 2012


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Rex H. GARD

Alva Cemetery


© Alva Review-Courier
10/16/2012

Funeral services will be Friday, October 19, 2012 at Wharton Funeral Chapel with Mike Taylor, Pastor, Alva First Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow in Alva Municipal Cemetery. Wharton Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at whartonfuneralchapel.com.

Rex was born on December 24, 1916 on the family farm near Fairview, Oklahoma, and passed away on Friday, October 12, 2012 at the age of 96 years.

He graduated from Cheyenne Valley High School and then apprenticed as a watch maker under Master Watch Maker W.B. Smith of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. There, he met and married his wife of 68 years, Bernice “Chic” Harper.

He served in the US Navy during World War II. After wartime service, Rex worked as a watch maker and jeweler for 40 years. He owned jewelry stores in Shattuck and then in Alva.

Rex was preceded in death by two brothers, Emory and Jon; his sister, Olive; his wife, Chic; and his son, Ben.

He is survived by his daughter-in-law, Patricia Gard of Norman, his grandson, Jeff Gard, and Jeff’s wife, Margaret, of Grapevine, Texas, his great-grandchildren, Ben, age 4 and Anna, age 1˝, many nieces and nephews and their families.

He will be buried in Alva, next to his wife and son.

   


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