Extracted from the Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Friday, September 30, 1966

Mrs. Gertrude Ard

Funeral services for Mrs. Gertrude Hawthorne Ard, 92, will be conducted Friday at 10 a.m. in the First Methodist Church of Seagoville.

Mrs. Ard, pioneer citizen of Seagoville, died Tuesday in Dallas. She was the mother of the late J. Wilbur Ard, formerly a member of the Early Bird radio show on WFAA, radio service of the Dallas News.

Survivors: a son, Harry C. Ard of South Salem, N. Y.; two daughters, Mrs. Ray Shaw of Dallas and Mrs. Vesta Wiser of Plainview, a sister, Mrs. Fannie Harris of Dallas; eight grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.