Orville Raymond Garner was born January 13, 1907, on the farm his Grand-
  mother homesteaded northeast of Hazelton. (See John Garner and Charles
  George histories). He walked a mile to attend Maple Crove Country School for
  8 years and then rode a horse to High School in Hazelton. He married Geneva
  Lillard (see Lillard history) May 3, 1931, and lived on the Cavanaough farm
  3 miles south of Hazelton for 26 years.
     I, Cecil Dwane Garner, was born to this union on April 21, 1933. I have
  2 sisters, Anita Louise, born Nov 2, 1936, and Vanda Lhea, born Oct. 7, 1941.
  We all graduated from Kiowa High School. Anita married Dwaine Fox and has
  two sons, Brad and Curtis. Vanda married Floyd Domnick, Jr. and has two
  children, Brandon and Holly. They live on her Great Grandmother's homestead.
     When I was old enough, I started helping Dad with the farming and chose
  farming as my profession, I married Shirley Pollock, September 7, 1952, and
  was then drafted into the U.S. Army in 1953, srving part of my term in Germany.
  Our first daughter, Cherly Dwalyn, was born Sept. 7, 1954. She graduated from
  OSU, and is a Lab Technologist in Tulsa, Okla. She married Jim Blunk of
  Hardtner. Our second daughter, Leta Jeannine, was born July 6, 1957, and 
  attends WSU and manages the Kiowa Swimming Pool. Our third daughter, Deidre
  Lee, was born June 23, 1960, and attends NWOSU, Alva. She married Larry Graves
  of Hardtner, and they have a daughter, Zabrina Lee, born April 26, 1979. Our
  son, Darren Leon, was born April 26, 1962, attends South Barber High School,
  and plans to farm when he graduates.
     The Garners have been farmers for 4 generations, farming wheat, barley,
  milo, and raising cattle. When Dad was young, they worked with teams of horses,
  and the neighbors helped each other. They cut their wheat with a header or
  binder and stacked or shocked it to dry, then trashed it with a thrashing 
  machine and hauled it to the bins and scooped it off the wagons. Dad said, 
  "We worked such hard long days, it seemed at night we threw our shoes under
  the bed and caught them on the other side and started to work again." After
  Dad and Mother were married, he had a hired man. Those were the days of low
  wages, but prices were high according to what the farmer sold. The 'dust'
  bowl days' and 'Depression' were hard times.
     When I was young, Dad went into the Conservation Farm Program to stop the
  land from blowing. He hired surveyors to lay out the first terraces to be
  built in our area. He planted grass in sandy soil and left in Soil Bank and
  built farm ponds with his own equipment. He farmed on the contour and
  fertilized to build up the soils. He was given a Soil Conservation Award in
  1957. Dad and I became good welders and did a lot of building and repairing
  of machinery. We farmed together until his death December 24, 1964.
     Dad and Mother moved to Kiowa in 1957. I then moved my family to my
  childhood homeplace. Mother still lives in Kiowa. She and Dad were two very
  special people.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 187 
     Submitted by: Dwane Garner