Mariette Rheiner Garner

Ettie R. Garner Hall is the women's dormitory at Southwest Texas Junior College in Uvalde, named for the wife of the former Vice President of the United States John Nance Garner.

Mariette Elizabeth "Ettie" Rheiner Garner (née Rheiner; July 17, 1869 – August 17, 1948) was the wife of John Nance Garner, the 32nd vice president of the United States, and thus second lady of the United States from 1933 to 1941.

Biography Mariette Elizabeth "Ettie" Rheiner Garner was born in Sabinal, Texas in 1869, to John Peter Rheiner, a Swiss immigrant who became a Texas rancher, and his first wife, the former Mary Elizabeth Watson.

In 1893, although women in Texas could not vote at the time, Mariette Rheiner ran for Uvalde County judge. She was defeated by the incumbent, John Nance Garner. Two years later, on November 25, 1895, she married Garner in Sabinal, Texas. They had one child, a son, Tully Charles Garner (1896–1968). In an interview in 1940, she denied running against Garner.