When Verna Garner was born on 11 June 1907, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, her father, Frank Abiah Garner, was 24 and her mother, Jennie Holt Hult, was 19. She married Frank Edward Cox on 27 July 1926, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Idaho Falls Election Precinct 5, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. She died on 9 August 2000, in Milton-Freewater, Umatilla, Oregon, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Milton-Freewater, Umatilla, Oregon, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): perhaps occasionally from the Old French personal name Garnier (see Garnier ), but it is exeptionally rare as a personal name in medieval England and no certain evidence has been found for its use as a surname. Compare Warner .
English: from Middle English gern(i)er, garner, gurner, Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It was probably a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
English and Scottish: commonly shortened form of Gardner .
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