Birth August 1, 1860 Osceola, Illinois
Death March 31, 1943 Glidden
Burial Maple Grove Cemetery, Audubon
Died at the home of her daughter Cora Alvina Paulsen.
Daughter of Adam & Sophronia (Wever) Gardner.
Married George Madison Wever, December 24, 1878, Stark County, Illinois.
Mother of Mita Estella Williams, Dana Edison, Cora Alvina Paulsen, Leo F., Myrtle B., Chester Arthur Wever.

Death Calls Mrs. Wever, Coon Rapids
Mrs. Mary Wever, 82, of Coon Rapids, died at 7:30 yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cora Paulsen in Glidden. Mrs. Wever, who had been in failing health for some time had been critically ill since Sunday night. She had made her home with Mrs. Paulsen for nearly a year.

Funeral rites are to be held at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Mrs. Paulsen's residence, with the Rev. Eugene Alexander, minister of the Coon Rapids Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be beside her husband in the Audubon Cemetery.

The body is being returned this afternoon to the home of Mrs. Paulsen from the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning.

Mrs. Wever is survived by one son, L.F. Wever of Hampton, and two daughters, Mrs. Mila F. Williams of Silvis, Illinois, and Mrs. Paulsen.

Mr. Wever and Mrs. Williams are here now.

Mrs. Wever leaves sixteen grandchildren. Two grandsons are in the service, LeRoy Paulsen and Kermit Wever.

Her husband died April 1919.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, April 1, 1943

Mary's mother's obituary lists Mary as living in Manning in 1915, when her mother died.
Sophronia May Wever Gardner
SEMI-WEEKLY ABERDEEN HERALD, ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON
THURSDAY APRIL 27, 1915
AGED ELMA WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Sophronia M. Gardner died Thursday last, aged 78 years. Death came after a long illness following upon a paralytic stroke. Surviving are the husband, who is in the Western Washington hospital and is aged 82 years; and nine children: Emmet C. Gardner of Kansas City, Kansas; Mrs. Ellen M. Rhodes of Tacoma; Moses Gardner of Osage, Kansas; Mrs. Etta Weaver of Manning, Iowa; George W. Gardner of Eagle, Colorado; Mrs. Cora G. Whitney of Leona, Kansas; Edwin I. Gardner, William L. Gardner and Robert E. Gardner of Elma. Mrs. Gardner was a native of New York, had been a resident of this state for the past 30 years and of Elma the last six years. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from the Methodist Church. Intent being at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.