Gardner Funeral Home

Calvin was a lifetime Floyd resident and a WWII Veteran. He worked for VDOT for 33 years.He was preceded in death by his father and mother Kyle and Pearl Reed, brother Marvin Reed, sister-in-law Ardennia Reed, brother-in- laws Don Sowers and Harless Quesenberry and son-in-law Darrell Parks.He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Evelyn Reed, Children, Douglas and Elizabeth Reed of Salem, Donna Parks of Willis, and David and Wanda Reed of Alabama; Six grandchildren; Two great grandchildren; two sisters, Virgie Quesenberry and Lula Mae Sowers.Funeral services will be held Tuesday January 17, 2017 at 11AM at Gardner Funeral Home with Pastor Shannon Hicks officiating. Interment will follow at Beaver Creek Cemetery.Friends may call after 5PM on Monday January 16, 2017 at Gardner Funeral Home where the family will be from 5PM-7PM. In lieu of flowers a donation may be made to Beaver Creek Baptist Church, 1647 Beaver Creek Rd. Floyd, VA. 24091.

A southwestern Indiana funeral home that's believed to be the state's oldest continuously operated business is celebrating its 200th year.The Gardner-Brockman Funeral Home traces its roots to 1816, when Andrew Gardner began making cabinets in Vincennes but quickly switched over to making coffins.The business will celebrate its long history with a Dec. 3 open house in the historic city about 40 miles north of Evansville.Chris Sievers is one of funeral home's three partners. He tells the Vincennes Sun-Commercial (http://bit.ly/2fkFiKe ) the Gardner Funeral Home was merged with the Brockman Funeral Home in 1998 after both were purchased by another company.Sievers says the business was corporation-owned until 2011, when it was acquired by Goodwin Funeral Homes and became locally-owned once again.___Information from: Vincennes Sun-Commercial, http://www.vincennes.com...