Elberta "Bert" Marie Gardner, 89, Archie, MO, passed away Sunday, March 17, 2019 at Crown Care Center in Harrisonville, MO.  Funeral services were held Thursday, March 21, 2019 at the Abiding Love Baptist Church in Harrisonville, with burial in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Harrisonville.   Memorial contributions may be made to Serenity Care Hospice.

Bert was born July 15, 1929 in rural Freeman, MO, a daughter of Elbert Carr and Amanda Marie (Jones) Flanary.  She attended the Bybee Rural School and Harrisonville High School.  She was a lifelong Harrisonville resident.

Bert married Ralph Brown in 1945.  They had one daughter, Linda Darlene.  Bert had worked as a seamstress during the 1940's at Bed Time Story Fashions in Harrisonville and in Belton for 18 years.   She married Arthur "Art" Lee Gardner on April 7, 1956.  Bert later worked as a cashier for Nyman's Grocery Store for five years and for Scavuzzo's Grocery Store for 25 years, before retiring in 1991.  She was a member of the Abiding Love Baptist Church in Harrisonville.

Bert was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Jack Flanary, Pete Flanary, and Elmer Flanary, two sisters, Dollie Pulliam and Hazel Middaugh, and her husband, Art on September 16, 1991.  She is survived by one daughter, Linda Davis (John), Archie, MO; one brother, Bud Flanary (Kathy), Harrisonville, MO; two sisters, Lois Knibb (Dean) and Shirley Henry (Larry), Harrisonville; two grandchildren, Kay Mawson (Rodney) and Paula Lethcho; three great-grandchildren, Callie Curtis (Nick), Markie Lethcho, and Mackenzie Mawson; one great-great-grandson, Stetson Curtis; many nieces and nephews, and a host of friends.