Marguerite Price Gardner of Little Rock died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008.

She was born in Little Rock Nov. 26, 1914, to Carl L. Price and Mildred Empfield Price. Her mother died when she was a year old, and she was raised by her father and stepmother, Chlora Wheat Price.

She was predeceased by her husband, Milton E. Gardner, in 1995 after 62 years of marriage.

She is survived by her daughter, Carla Brunner (Frank) of Marked Tree; son, John M. "Chuck" Gardner (Betty) of Little Rock; her grandchildren, Philip Brunner, Stewart Brunner, Elizabeth Morrison (Thad), Price Gardner (Sara) and Lisa Ring (Chris); her great-grandchildren, Brittany Milligan (Kenny), Eric Brunner, Austin and Rebecca Ring, Megan and David Gardner, Michael, Mary, Hattie and Zoe Morrison; her great-great-grandchildren Madison Smith, Maizy and Marleigh Milligan; and two cousins, Ruth Purrman and Louella Bevill of Mulberry Grove, Ill.

Gardner was educated in Little Rock public schools and, after graduating from LRHS in 1931, attended Arkansas Tech, where she met Milton. They were married in Tupelo on Sept. 3, 1933, and returned to Little Rock. She worked for the U.S. government during World War II with the FBI background investigation division.

After the war she worked part-time with her cousin, Maysel Goss, at the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce. Later she was bookkeeper for McOsker-Gardner Co., her husband's food brokerage firm.

She was a member of Prodeo and Little Rock Departmental Club. She is remembered for her care of others and her love of animals, reading and gardening.

She was a member of Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Fidelis Sunday School Class and attended First United Methodist Church while residing in Marked Tree with her daughter.

Services were held Thursday Aug. 7 with Dr. Randy Hyde officiating. Interment followed in Roselawn Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Pulaski Heights Baptist Church HIS committee, St. Bernards Hospice of Jonesboro or the Pulaski County Humane Society.