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Gardiner Jones Jr (b. 15 May 1922, d. 22 Jun 1987)
 | Gardiner Bouton Jones Jr |
Gardiner Jones Jr (son of Gardiner Jones Sr and Mae Lucille McFann) was born 15 May 1922 in Manila, Republic ot the Philippines, and died 22 Jun 1987 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY90.He married Kathleen Orr on 29 Sep 1948, daughter of Kinley Tection Orr and Nancy Lavina Lamb.
Notes for Gardiner Jones Jr:BIOGRAPHY: Gardiner Bouton Jones Jr. was born 15 May 1922 in a civilian hospital in Manila, Republic Of The Philippines to Col. Gardiner B. Jones and Mae Lucille (McFann) Jones, and was baptized 19 Sep 1948. His father was stationed in the Philippines at the time of Gardiner Jr.'s birth. He died 22 Jul 1987 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Gardiner married Kathleen Orr, the daughter of Kinley and Nancy (Lamb) Orr, on 24 Sep 1948.
His childhood was that of a military dependent, moving from post to post. As a boy he watched the Golden Gate Bridge being built over the San Francisco Bay while his father was stationed at the Presidio.
Gardiner served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as his company's pay sergeant, and attained the rank of Technical Sergeant. In is words he "helped load bombs on D-Day." (Author's Note: everyone in the Army Air Corps in Europe helped load bombs on D-Day.)
He earned a BA degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, and shortly thereafter married Kathleen "Kay" Orr of Wayzata, Minnesota. Gardiner worked in the first years of their marriage as the A.P. wire service in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where their first child, Nancy Kay was born.
Shortly before the birth of their second child, Gardiner Bouton Jones III, Gardiner accepted a job in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii as a reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser. Kay, also a journalism graduate, took at job at the same newspaper where she worked for many years as a reporter. Gardiner Jr. became well known in political circles in Hawaii for his work as one of the political editors for the newspaper, receiving almost annual awards for his writing. When the large newspaper conglomerate, Gannett, bought up the Honolulu Advertiser in the very early 1970s, Gardiner moved on to public affairs work for a few politicians, and ended up as the Director of Public Affairs for the School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii for several years.
When his youngest child, Margaret, graduated from high school, Gardiner sought a divorce from his wife of over 25 years. She never remarried, but Gardiner remarried an old flame, Ann.
In the late 1960s Gardiner was diagnosed with kidney failure, the result of a violent strep infection during his military service in World War II. He ended up as a renal failure patient, receiving dialysis two to three times a week for over 10 years before his death. In 1981 his second wife very unexpectedly was attacked by a cancer so violent it took her life within four months of the diagnosis. Her death devastated Gardiner who almost never recovered from it.
Gardiner Jr. retired at the end of 1986, and in a rush moved from Honolulu to live in the street-level apartment of his oldest daughter's brownstone in Brooklyn, New York. Shortly after his arrival there, his mind left him. According to his daughter, Nancy, when he arrived in New York he was his usual highly intelligent, lucid self, but within days seemed to have lost his mind. He didn't seem to know who he was, or who Nancy was, and would violently curse her and accuse her of all manner of crimes. This writer suspects that Gardiner may have had some information he never shared with anyone which might have shed some light on his cause of death. In any event, it was very uncharacteristic of a man who was normally such a careful and methodical planner to suddenly sell his apartment in Honolulu and hurriedly move from the home he'd known for thirty years. The apparent rush of his actions indicated immediate need, and was enough to set off mental alarms in both his oldest daughter, Nancy Kay, and his second child, Gardiner B Jones III. He was hospitalized, diagnosed and treated by doctors for everything they could imagine, but died several months later of causes unknown. (Note: Gardiner's cause of death is listed on his death certificate as "natural causes.")
More About Gardiner Jones Jr and Kathleen Orr:
Marriage: 29 Sep 1948
Children of Gardiner Jones Jr and Kathleen Orr are:
- Nancy Kay Jones.
- +Gardiner Jones III.
- Lucy May Jones, b. 07 Sep 1953, Honolulu, Honolulu Co., HI, d. 1989, Kailua, Honolulu Co., HI.
- Kinley Christopher Jones.
- Margaret Katherine Jones, b. 1956, Honolulu, Honolulu Co., Hi, d. 17 Jul 2007, OR.