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Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 12 June 2003
Funeral services for Susie Mae Garner, 77, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 8, 2003 at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with Rev. Doug Springer of Rockdale Full Gospel officiating. Burial followed in the Eagle Cemetery near Rockdale. She died Thursday, June 5, 2003 at the Pine Shadow Retreat in Porter.

Mrs. Garner, a Porter resident the past three and a half years, formerly a Houston resident for 54 years, was raised in the Rockdale area. She was born Oct. 10, 1925 in the Eagle Community, near Rockdale, to John William and Annie Mae (O'Bier) Tyler.

Mrs. Garner was married to Millard Eugene Garner Sr. She attended Eagle School, graduated from Rockdale High School and was a member of Forest Grove Christian Church in the Forest Grove Community. Mrs. Garner had attended the Lakewood Church in Houston for 20 years and was a volunteer worker at Lakewood Church as a prayer worker. She worked for Southern Pacific Railroad in Houston for 43 years as an accountant at the freight station.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Millard Garner Sr.; son, Millard Garner Jr.; sister, Lucille Holliman; and her parents.

Surviving are: Brothers, Dan Tyler of Houston and Johnnie Milton Tyler of Lexington; sister, Tommie Nell Roach of Porter; daughter-in-law, Renee Garner of Glendale, AR; three grandsons and three step-grandsons.