Fanny Gardner

Fanny Gardner 

1906 - 1993

Lived her entire life in this home at 145 Intervale Avenue. The home, built in 1898 may have been constructed by her father. She had quite a reputation. She loved to talk. Didn’t allow trespassers  to cross her land. She never married and lived alone. She worked her whole career for the Burlington school district as a secretary. She was involved with the Ohavi Zedek synagogue and Jewish women and girl’s society. She had 4 brothers, one of whom, Meyer Gardner, was the first Jewish police officer with the BPD.  She grazed her cows, it is rumored, at Roosevelt Park - once a hay field. Heated her home with coal, bits of which can still be dug from the yard. She died and was laid out in the front rooms here in 1983 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Jewish cemetery on Patchen Rd. She hid $30,000 dollars in the walls of her home - discovered after her death (and returned to the family).