Gardner, Katherine Hull
Katherine Victorine Gardner, 95 of Floyd, passed away Wednesday, June 22, 2022. She is predeceased by her husband, Bernard E. Gardner; parents, Edward Sanders Hull and Nancy Arlena Bolt Hull; brothers, Dixie D. Hull (Ava) and Rush Hull (Nancy).
She is survived by her daughter, Vicki S. Gardner; son, Donald R. Gardner (Joyce); grandchildren, Ashlee V. Gardner, Adam G. Gardner (Carrie); great-grandson, Nathaniel J. Gardner.
Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Maberry Funeral Home chapel with Pastor Timothy Hale and Pastor Richard Gregory officiating. The interment will follow at Jacksonville Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. prior to the service. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Floyd United Methodist Church, in memory of Katherine Gardner, 417 E Main St, Floyd, VA 24091.
June 23, 2022 @ 4:10 pm
My deepest sympathies to Don and Vickie and all Katherine’s extended family. She knew, and was known by, so many people. My memories of her start when she and Bernard moved into our rural neighborhood. My mother baby sat for her. We visited from time to time. By my deepest, and fondest memories are from the years when she worked for my long-time friend and mentor Giles Lee Rutrough in the drug store. What wonderful times! What a fine lady! I am go glad our lives came together in such a way I can stand her today and say I am proud to have known her.
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails in the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, there she goes!”
Gone Where? Gone from my sight… that is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There she goes!,” there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, “There she comes!”