Even after he moved on from JSerra, he continued to maintain close friendships with many of our staff,” Reidy said in the email. Gardner, a founding member of the JSerra faculty, “was one of our most beloved teachers during his long tenure with us. In an emailed statement on Friday, Patrick Reidy, vice president of Mission and Faith, said the news of Gardner’s death has been devastating for the JSerra community. The family is currently arranging a memorial for Gardner that will be open to the community.
Gardner is survived by his wife and 3-year-old daughter.
“I just didn’t want to give up, dead or alive, I was like, ‘I’ve got to find my brother,’” Michaela Gardner said. “He was an artist, a painter, as well, like landscapes and ocean wave scenes, things like that,” she continued.ĭuring the weeks that Gardner was missing, the family’s worst fear, she said, was finding him dead. “He had a huge following in the community and friends within San Clemente, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano.” “He swam the channel between Dana Point and Catalina and was just completely immersed in ocean culture,” Michaela Gardner said. Gardner loved surfing and watersports, his sister Michaela Gardner said to Dana Point Times on Friday, Aug.
COSTA MESA POLICE BLOTTER UPDATE
OCSD’s Dana Point Police Services posted a Twitter update on Thursday announcing the positive identification, writing, “the Department sends its deepest condolences to the Gardner family.” Timothy Nicholson may have been arrested in or around Doddridge, West Virginia on or around. Todd Hylton said.Ī death investigation is currently underway, pending an autopsy and toxicology report, Templado said. The case was taken over by California Highway Patrol Santa Ana because Gardner’s body was discovered on state property, OCSD spokesperson Sgt. “There was no evidence of any type of trauma or any self-inflicted injuries.” “Coroners were called, and in their initial assessment, they determined that the body had been deceased for about nine to 12 days based on decomposition,” Templado said. The body was initially reported to Costa Mesa Police, said California Highway Patrol Officer Anselmo Templado. Please call the Sheriff’s Department at 71 if you have any information. Have you seen Orion Gardner? He left his residence on July 20th and has not been seen since. 7, according to California Highway Patrol. Gardner left his Dana Point home in the early morning of July 20 in a black shirt, black pants, black shoes and black-rimmed glasses.Ī transient in Costa Mesa was collecting cans and other recyclables behind a doggy daycare center on Bristol Street when he noticed the body on Sunday morning, Aug. Gardner, a JSerra Catholic High School science teacher and San Clemente High alumnus, was reported missing on July 21, with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department issuing a critical missing person alert. The body of 44-year-old Dana Point resident Orion Adrian Gardner was found in Costa Mesa earlier this week, concluding an 18-day search by law enforcement, authorities announced Thursday, Aug.
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