First and foremost, I want to thank everyone for coming to today’s Celebration of Life for my father, Edward Rogerson Gardner, also affectionately known as Ned. My father was a good man. He was intelligent, charismatic, humorous, and debonair. He was talented in so many ways. He was the life of the party. Everyone wanted to be around my father. He made people laugh with his stories, jokes, and anecdotes - some of these were sardonic, others were witty. He loved nicknam

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