Daniel Stanley "Beeler" Gardzina

12/19/2004

Daniel Stanley "Beeler" Gardzina, 76, of 136 Meadow St. died yesterday morning at Webster Manor Nursing Home in Webster after a short illness. Born in North Adams on March 11, 1928, son of John J. and Victoria E. Zdon Gardzina, he was educated in North Adams schools. A Navy veteran, he served from 1946 to 1948 on Yap Island in the Caroline Islands in the Pacific. Mr. Gardzina retired from the polyfibron division of W.R. Grace Co. in Adams after 16 years of service. Before that, he was employed by the former Sprague Electric Co. and the former Wall-Streeter Shoe Co., and by the former Warren Wire Co. in Pownal, Vt. He also worked for more than 34 years at Valley Park Bowling Lanes. He was a lifelong communicant of St. Francis' Church and a member of Dr. George Curran Post 996 Veterans of Foreign Wars and Frank R. Stiles Post 125 American Legion. An accomplished candlepin bowler, he won many trophies in competition. His wife, the former Mary Frances Maloney, whom he married Sept. 17, 1955, in St. Francis' Church in Bennington, died Jan. 10, 1996. He leaves a daughter, Mary Ellen Severance of Charlton; two sisters, Evelyn Davis and Emily Harrington, both of Williamstown, and two brothers, John Gardzina of North Adams and Stanley Gardzina of Aiken, S.C. FUNERAL NOTICE -- The funeral for Daniel S. Gardzina, who died Dec. 19, 2004, will be Wednesday, Dec. 22, at 10 at FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME FOR FUNERALS, West Chapels, 521 West Main St., North Adams, followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 11 at St. Francis of Assisi Church, North Adams. Burial will be in Southview Cemetery, North Adams. Calling hours at the funeral home will be tomorrow, Dec. 21, from 3 to 7. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested for the Victory Junction Way through the funeral home. Survivors include a son-in-law, Glenn Severance, and nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. He was predeceased by two sisters, Genevieve Ferdin and Helen Brendza, and by two brothers, Edward and Joseph Gardzina.

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