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- Greenfield Recorder
October 07, 2009
WHATELY -- Gertrude C. Bardwell, 93, former Whately postmaster and formerly of 200 Chestnut Plain Road, died Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, in Overlook at Northampton.
She was born in South Hadley, Feb. 3, 1916, the daughter of George and Clara (Ryder) Haskell. Gert was educated in South Hadley schools and graduated from South Hadley High School. In early years, she worked in a South Hadley Laundromat. She later worked on a farm for Howard Waite.She was named Whately postmaster in 1959 and retired from that post in 1981.
Gertrude was married to Charles Bardwell on July 1, 1939 in South Hadley. They made their home in Whately. Charles predeceased her in 1991.
She was a member of the Ladies Benevolent Society, the Whately Grange 441, Whately Historical Society and was a member of the Whately Congregational Church for over 50 years.
She is survived by three nieces: Linda Kaiser and her husband Ward of Shelburne Falls, Gertrude Gimby of Haverhill and Betty Porter and her husband Warren of Southington, Conn.; three nephews, Wesley Dickinson and his wife Rosita of South Deerfield, Robert Haskell and his wife Alice of Cheshire, Conn., and Laurent Granger and his wife Vivian of Fairview; several grandnieces and grandnephews.
She was predeceased by one brother, John Haskell, and two sisters, Eleanor Granger and Dorothy Dickinson.
Burial will be in Whately Center Cemetery.
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