Alma Ailius Gardner

Alma and Albert Gardner are twins. They were excellent baseball players and after they no longer played the game they umpired and were often called upon to umpire the baseball games at Woodson, TX.

He served as a school trustee in the Sunshine Community and another small community school. After these consolidated with the Woodson Independent School District, he became a trustee there.

During the depression he took what jobs he could find to support his family. He did some farming and in his later years he operated a feed store in Woodson, before moving to Littlefield, TX, where they owned a small grocery store for a short time. They, then moved to Odessa, TX, and purchased a gas station for their son, Jim to operate. It was there that he had a stroke, after which he lived about two weeks.