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We were very sorry to hear of the death of Tom Gardner, longtime Associated Press reporter in Reno, who had been living at a long-term care facility in Yerington in recent months after a years-long battle with cancer.
No services are planned. Here’s a link to a short obituary in the Reno Gazette-Journal.
As his colleagues noted, Tom was a steady hand at the AP bureau and the go-to guy for stories about the weather, NASCAR and country music. Of course, he covered all sorts of news during his decades in Reno, after a stint as broadcast editor for AP in his home state of Ohio.