Hi Grandma
Thank you for always being there and never giving up on me! You always loved unconditionally no matter what! I miss you so much Grandma! I miss being with you during the day and eating together and taking our naps... Im happy that you've finally found peace and are with Grandpa again and I know Ill see you again someday!
Love Cindy

Next to the word "Special" in the dictionary is a picture of you - Gramma. All my memories of you will live on in my heart and I will always picture you in my mind. You lived and gave life so that there could be our enormous family. 

I've shed tears for myself for the loss of you - but they have dried now and I am happy for you. 

THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart and soul for the love you always gave. Always rest in peace... 

Oh Gramma, my name is spelled Teri not Terri!

Well Mom, you made it home. I am truly going to miss you but I know you are now happier than ever before. Give Dad and Kathie a really big hug for me. I love you, Don

Grandma,
What a blessing you have always been in our lives. You taught us the true value of FAMILY. You never took that for granted and you made each one of us a priority in your life. We will miss you oh so much, but we rest assured in your salvation and know that one day we will see you again. Thanks for being the strong Woman you are and for teaching me to give God the glory under any and all circumstances. Love you Grandma Hack!!

I have many great memories of taking Grandmom to visit Aunt Katherine. There were many great times.
No all of you are together.
Rest in Peace.
Love Charleen and Family

planes and time with grandma
I grew up like a Borg, one of many, never an individual. Even one on one time with grandma was hard to come by. One day she picked me up and we stopped and picked up a pizza and went to the little municipal airport to watch the planes come and go. I don't know what we talked about or if we even talked I just was so happy to be with her. She wanted to spend time with me and I had her all to myself, life was perfect. I wrote a letter to her years later about that day. She said she cried when she read the it and had kept it. We'll go on with our beautiful memories of her. But without her sweet and feisty self next to us.

Grandma Kathy...You are such and AMAZING woman. We all love and miss you immensely. I will always keep the memories of having Sunday breakfast at your house, the family get-togethers with homemade ice cream and all of us kids running a muck around the house. Your love was so deep and endless. Give Grandpa a big hug for me!! Until I see you again...I love you!

The best Grandmother in the World
Grandma, what an amazing woman you were. Thank you for having time for all of us always. You shaped us all and we are all better people because we had you in our lives. You taught us so much and I have so many wonderful memories from my life with you that I don't know where to begin but I will try. Of course it probably all begins with Sunday breakfasts and dinners on the dairy; watching you prepare meals for your huge family. To this day, I haven't seen so much fresh food and so many wonderful dishes prepared for one sitting. While I watched you making bread, pies, cakes pastries, washing spinach, cutting turnips, shucking fresh peas, seasoning meat, frying chicken, mashing potatoes, making biscuits and gravy, and slicing strawberries, I memorized every square inch of your kitchen and took in all that I could of your sweetness and love for your family. I remember watching the minute hand on the kitchen clock go round and round late in the evening on Sundays as the adults talked for hours after dinner. How lucky I am to have gotten to witness this all. I can still hear, see, smell, and feel all of these moments.

Of course, getting to stay the night at your house was an absolute golden ticket. Getting to sleep on the floor with the cousins (somehow you got the mattress down from the upstairs apartment and muscled it into the living room floor even if the boys weren't around to help), getting to help you bake the next day - you actually seemed to like having us in the kitchen, getting to eat all the wonderful food, getting to play with your sewing material, shopping at the grocery store with you, and getting cleaned up and you washing my hair in the kitchen sink.

Later, when you and Grandpa moved into town and I didn't want to and/or was too scared to walk home from Jr. High, I would walk to your house instead and stay until mom picked me up after work. What a win this was getting to hang out with you and Grandpa and have you both to myself. Getting the best food after school, getting to stay for dinner sometimes, having you listen and be empathetic to my teen angst and moodiness, getting hugs and kisses galore, watching t.v. with Grandpa and you helping me with my homework. Sorry about that day I got hit in the head by a metal bar at softball practice and ran screaming into the house with blood coming down my head. You did a great job calming me down and staying calm yourself. I don't know what I would have done during these years if I didn't have your house to go to before and after school.

I will always remember that you and Grandpa didn't lock your front door because you wanted your family and friends to walk right in, which we did. You valued common sense and modest, simple living - these were virtues that you did your best to impart to us. I loved hearing the stories about your early married years with Grandpa and how you didn't have much money but you never wanted for anything. Your were such a strong woman; I marvel at the story of when you lived in a tent for six months with a toddler and an infant in the Imperial Valley while Grandpa worked on the canal; you told me that it wasn't too bad but it started to get hot in June. I'm still laughing about seeing what a good shot you were with the b.b. gun and the look on Robbie's face too when he saw you hit the swingset pole on the first shot; we didn't know at the time that you were raised in the Colorado outback and one of your jobs as a kid was to keep the rodents out of the family garden with a gun. Best of all was watching you tackle Robbie when you were in your sixties and he was in high school. I think the last thing you said before you did it was "don't think that I can't or won't". That was great!

I loved your sense of humor and your sense of adventure. You were such a great sport when we took you to Cabo San Lucas. I'll have to post those pictures. Pretty sure you wanted to stay and live down there but you knew Grandpa was waiting back home. You loved your whole family and God Bless you, you tried to keep us all on the straight and narrow and you kept on loving us when we didn't.

I'm so honored that we had you for so long and that my children got to know such a wonderful, loving great grandma. You are with Grandpa again and in the presence of the Lord but you are forever in my heart.

Love, Lisa

Grandma I miss you so much. Hug Grandpa & everyone who is there with you for me. I Love You.

Grandma, we're all going to miss you VERY much! I love you. Give grandpa a huge hug for me.

OBITUARY

Katherine Hope Gardner

July 26, 1919 – December 27, 2011

Miller Jones Mortuary and Crematory

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