Genealogy - Gardner's, Genealogy - Kendall's, Kendall Family Tree
Maida (Gardner) Kendall
(Wife of Courtney 'Clare' Kendall (5th generation))
(Fredrick 4, Alonzo Burnham (A.B.) 3, Young Ichabod 2, Alphens 1)
Maida was born to Warren Wells and Minnie (Stokes) Gardner on May 26, 1891, in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. She attended the University of California - Berkeley where she earned her teaching credential.
Pictured: Maida V. (Gardner) Kendall, one of my great-grandmothers. High School Graduation photo (date unknown).
Pictured: Maida V. (Gardner) Kendall and one of her classes (date unknown). Maida is in the top row, far right.
Maida was teaching in the San Joaquin valley when she met and later married Courtney 'Clare' Kendall. They wed on April 17, 1916. The had two sons, Gardner Warren Kendall (1918-1994) and Calvin Wells Kendall (1920-1999). The family moved to the Sebastopol, California, area in 1938. Gardner, in family remembrances, recalls that Maida was a good cook, well-educated (her assistance with schoolwork allowed him to skip the 1st and 8th grades) and enjoyed visiting her parents at their home in Berkeley, California.
Maida lived to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary with Clare in 1966 before he died in April of 1967. Maida passed on in the Sebastopol Convalescent Hospital in March of 1973.
Before passing, Maida was made a great-gandmother four times. Pictured are four generations of Kendall women - Tricia Kuba (me), Shirley Dee (Kendall) Kuba (my mother), Maida (my great-grandmother) and Dorothy (Wight) Kendall (my grandmother) in Sebastopol, California (June, 1970).
Some Gardner family photographs
Minnie Stokes' father - taken in Minnesota (date unknown).
Minnie Stokes as a young girl (date unknown).
Minnie (Stokes) Gardner in the gardens of her and Warren's Berkeley home (date unknown).
Warren Gardner, one of my great-great-grandfathers. Taken in Winona, Minnesota (date unknown)
Warren Gardner outside his Berkeley, California, home (date unknown)
Genealogy - Gardner family
The Gardner family tree begins with Warren Wells Gardner and continues down to Maida V. Gardner (2nd generation Gardner) whose marriage to Courtney Clare Kendall (5th generation Kendall) brings the Pride's and Walker's into the Kendall genealogy. Asterisks mark the generations in my direct family line. Some family members names are are underlined. These are links to their biographical information (including siblings), and when available, photos.
- Warren Wells Gardner * (1st generation)
- Born: date, location unknown
- Married: date, location unknown
- Spouse: Minnie Stokes
- Born: date, location unknown
- Died: date, location unknown
- Child: Maida V. * (Born: May 26, 1891 in Duluth, Minnesota)
- Spouse: Minnie Stokes
- Died: date, location unknown
Genealogy - Kendall's
The Gardner's belong to the Kendall genealogy by Maida V.'s (2nd generation Gardner) marriage to Courtney Clare Kendall (5th generation Kendall).
The Kendall family tree begins with Alphens (Alpheus?) Kendall and continues down to my maternal grandfather, Calvin Wells Kendall. Asterisks mark the generations in my direct family line. I am a 8th-generation member of the Kendall family, whose line dates back to the mid-1800's. Some family members names are are underlined. These are links to their biographical information (including siblings), and when available, photos.
- Maida V. Gardner
- Born: May 26, 1891 in Duluth, Minnesota
- Married: April 17, 1916, location unknown
- Spouse: Courtney 'Clare' Kendall * (5th generation)
- Born: June 23, 1892 in Pt. Arena, California
- Died: April, 1967 in Sebastopol, California
- Child: Gardner Warren (Born: May 16, 1918 in 'The Island' (Hanford), California)
- Child: Calvin Wells * (Born: April 18, 1920 in Hanford, California)
- Spouse: Courtney 'Clare' Kendall * (5th generation)
- Died: 1973 in Sebastopol, California
