Cora Gardner Durham, 89, of Amarillo died Tuesday, April 2, 2002.

Graveside services will be at 2:00 p.m. Friday in Memorial Park Cemetery with J.R. Hammond, pastor of Bethel Assembly of God Church, officiating. Arrangements are by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Martin Road Chapel, 1505 Martin Road.

Mrs. Durham moved to Amarillo from Childress 63 years ago. She was a member of Bethel Assembly of God Church. She retired from Colbert's in 1975. She married Charles F. Gardner in 1929 in Childress. She later married Albert Jay Durham in 1979.

She was preceded in death by her first husband in July 1968; her second husband in January 2000; and a son, Allen Ray Gardner.

Survivors include a daughter, Virginia Charlene Benson of Amarillo; a son, Eddie Wayne Gardner of Amarillo; a sister, Juanita Unsell of Cash, Oklahoma, eight grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren.

Published April 4, 2002.