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Mona Gardner's parents were 'Disbrow' (sic) and Grace Irons. She was baptised in the Methodist church in Toms River, New Jersey, in 1909 with her sisters Elsie, and Pearl, and brother Cecil. In the 1910 federal census, Mona was 6 and living with her parents, Disbron (sic) Irons, who was age 31 at the time, and Grace, who was 27, in Dover, New Jersey. Her siblings Elsie (10), Pearl, age 5, and Cecil (1), were also in the household. Father Disbron was a caretaker in a hotel. Twenty years later, in the 1930 federal census, Mona was 28 years old, married, and living with her family in Neptune, New Jersey. In the household were husband Leon Gardner, who was 38, wife Mona Gardner, who was 28, and daughters Grace, who was 5, and Madelyn, who was age 1. Leon was a foreman at a golf club. After another 20 years passed, in the 1950 federal census, Mona, who was 46, was married to Leon Gardner, who was 57, and they were living in Monmouth, New Jersey with their child Kenneth, who was 10. Leon was the proprietor of a bait and tackle store. When she died, Mona was survived by one son, Kenneth L. Gardner, Lakehurst; two daughters, Grace A Boyd, Tinton Falls, and Madelyn F. Slocum, Wall; and two brothers, Edward Irons and Alfred Irons of Florida, according to Mona Gardner: Obituary