{"id":20958,"date":"2023-10-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/fayetteville\/?p=20958"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:22:36","slug":"karen-gardner-lived-to-love-lincoln-countys-children-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/fayetteville\/karen-gardner-lived-to-love-lincoln-countys-children-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Gardner Lived to Love Lincoln County\u2019s Children and Community."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I<\/strong>T\u2019S ONE of our most basic needs, present from birth: the need to belong. To feel seen, heard, understood, and cared for is a critical part of our development at all ages. Karen Gardner saw the people in her community \u2014 really, truly saw them and cared for and about them. She spent her life serving and caring for others as if responding to a call audible only to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And though she constantly served those outside her home, those inside never felt left out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMama was more dedicated than anybody I can imagine. She was there until the job was done, no matter what time it was, and you couldn\u2019t have talked her out of it to save your life. My mama belonged to the community. She loved the community, the children of Lincoln County, and Lincoln County just as much as she did us,\u201d said Kim Gardner Baker, Gardner\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the \u201870s, karate kick-started Gardner\u2019s career in the direction of law enforcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baker said, \u201cIn 1974, she got her black belt. Back then, that wasn\u2019t something women did. Then, she started teaching karate here in town. She did it for free because she wanted to\u00a0help kids and get people involved in karate because it was good for your mental state, discipline, and all that. And she wanted to do it for free to help other kids get that experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gardner spent several years at Amana with a term in the United States Army at Redstone Arsenal sandwiched in between. The single mom\u2019s official service to her country ended when a tour in Korea would be the next assignment. But her service to her community was just beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She signed on as a volunteer officer with the Fayetteville Police Department (FPD) while working at Amana. The many unpaid hours she spent with the FPD clarified her true calling, and in 1988, Gardner took a 50% pay reduction to become a full-time officer. It was a small price to pay, and she moved from patrolman to investigator, where crimes against children, especially, moved her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this time, she enrolled in training with her daughter, Baker, for a position as a foster parent. Baker couldn\u2019t complete the course then, but Gardner moved forward, motivated by her caregiver\u2019s heart. Her daughter ultimately became a foster parent, but Gardner beat her to it and went on to adopt two of the children she fostered, Charlie Gardner and Brianna Warren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLiving in a small town like this, you don\u2019t realize what some kids go through until you get involved with the foster care system, and then you see how blessed you are to have a good family,\u201d Baker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Gardner saw it and spent her life doing something about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/fayetteville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/10\/1-3-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/fayetteville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/10\/1-3-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/fayetteville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/10\/1-3-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/fayetteville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/10\/1-3-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photographed by Brooke Snyder. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When Lincoln County began its school resource officer (SRO) program, Gardner was among the first to sign up, moving from the FPD to the Lincoln County Sheriff\u2019s Department (LCSD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was perfect,\u201d Baker said. \u201cShe loved kids, so it was perfect. She was a patrolman and SRO, mainly at the school. Now, they\u2019ve got SROs in every school, but when Mom was there, she had to do [several] schools. I told him they had to get five or six officers to take my mom\u2019s place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carman Smith, former director of health and safety at Lincoln County Schools, saw Gardner\u2019s dedication firsthand. Gardner\u2019s passion for her job impacted more than students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I took the job, we didn\u2019t have SROs in every building. We had Karen, and we had Bill Wood. Karen trained me on what being an SRO was supposed to look like. It was, \u2018Yes, I\u2019m a police officer, but this is about the kids,\u2019 and not everybody can be an SRO,\u201d Smith said. \u201cShe set the standard for me that I used for the rest of my career managing the SROs. She helped build the program from the ground up and was an integral part of getting it in place and setting the standards. She set the bar on what it\u2019s supposed to look like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lieutenant Tony Metcalf, who manages the SROs today, took Gardner\u2019s SRO position upon her retirement and spent many years before that on the force with her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKaren Gardner was the salt of the Earth. She took care of more people than most anybody I know. Karen\u2019s been a mama to more kids, even those that had parents. She was our mama. She took care of me when I started in law enforcement, and she was good to me. But she was always looking out for those kids,\u201d said Metcalf.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she couldn\u2019t stop looking out for those kids when she retired as an SRO. She found her way, sometimes literally, back into the schools as a substitute teacher. Even with vision problems and a walker, she was there for the kids.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she passed away in Maury County Hospital last year, her fellow officers escorted her home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen Mother passed away, the police officer on duty at the hospital stood watch. She had been away from law enforcement since about 2017, but Sandy Metcalf with the LCSD sent two deputies to the hospital, and they escorted us and the hearse back to Fayetteville. The Maury County deputies and city officers had all the [traffic] lights stopped for us. Then, a Lincoln County deputy kept 24-hour guard at the funeral home,\u201d Baker said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How fitting that so many stood watch as the one that stood watch over the children and members of the Lincoln County community came home one last time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her legacy lives on, though, in those she trained and influenced: her friends, family, and the students whose paths were redirected by her intervening tough love.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was our mama. <strong>GN\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT\u2019S ONE of our most basic needs, present from birth: the need to belong. To feel seen, heard, understood, and cared for is a critical part of our development at all ages. Karen Gardner saw the people in her community \u2014 really, truly saw them and cared for and about them. 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