Rena Wilcox

Rena Wilcox

Female 1903 - 1969  (65 years)


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  • Name Rena Wilcox 
    Birth 22 Oct 1903  Mexico, Oswego County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 16 May 1969  Ovoca, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I69079  Stewartsny
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Father Ernest Gilbert Wilcox,   b. 15 Jul 1874, Mexico, Oswego County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Aug 1951, Bath Veterans Cem., Bath, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Adeline B. Dyke,   b. 10 Oct 1886, Mexico, Oswego County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Oct 1956, Albion, Orleans County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1901  [1
    Divorce Divorce  [1
    Family ID F23093  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Clarence Gardner 
    Family ID F23034  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Rena M. Wilcox Gardner - October 22, 1903 - May 16, 1969. Daughter of Ernest G. and Adeline B. Dyke Wilcox. Wife of Clarence W. Gardner & Lloyd Grau.
      Newspaper Obituary - Monday, May 19, 1969 Watertown Daily Times - Watertown, New York - Mrs. Lloyd Grau Dies - Pulaski - Mrs. Rena M. Grau, 65, wife of Lloyd Grau, 16 N. Maple Street, Ovoca, former Rodman residents died Friday in Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital, Ovoca. The funeral will be Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Foster Funeral Home. Burial will be in South Richland Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Besides her husband she is survived by two sons, Gaylord J. Gardner, Leroy, and Clarence L. Gardner, Parish; three daughters, Mrs. Harold (Gladys) DeSalvatore, Fulton; Mrs. Roger (Hazel) Allen, Norfolk; and Mrs. Glen (Beulah) Nielson, Ada, Michigan; a step-son, Nelson D. Grau, Theresa; a step-daughter, Mrs. George (Beverly) Hickox, Auburn; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Kemheller, Fayetteville, and Mrs_ Dorothy Rogers, Mannsville, 26 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Born October 22, 1903, in Mexico, New York, a daughter of Peter and Addie Dyke Wilcox, she attended-school in Texas, New York, and was married to Clarence W. Gardner on September 13, 1920. The couple lived in East Mannsville several years, then moved to Wellesley Island, and Oxbow. They came to Pulaski 30 years ago. Mr. Gardner died in July 1961. In 1963 she was married to Lloyd Grau of Rodman. After marriage the couple lived in Florida. They returned to Rodman and then moved to Ovoca.

  • Sources 
    1. [S482] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;;), Database online.
      Record for Adeline 'Addie' B. Dyke
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=34162838565&indiv=try