Corsicana Daily Sun - Sept 27, 2005 edition

Elmer Junior Tanner
Feb 2, 1926 - Sep 25, 2005

Elmer Junior Tanner, 79, of Shady Grove passed away after a long battle with
cancer Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005, in Corsicana.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Griffin-Roughton Funeral
Home.
Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Griffin-Roughton Chapel with the Rev.
Darin Wood officiating. Interment will follow at New Pursley Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Michael Patrick, Terry Patrick, Ronnie J. Tanner, Bryan
Neal Tanner, Elton Glen Lane and John Ivie. Honorary pallbearers will be Elwin
Rhodes, Charlie Parrish and Mike Tanner.
Mr. Tanner was born Feb. 2, 1926, in Pursley to Felix Elmer and Hettie Lane
Tanner, the 11th of 12 children. He spent most of his life as a farmer. He
retired from Whiteselle Brick Yard where he was a heavy machine operator.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 59 years, Bessie Lee Wilson Tanner.
Survivors include two sons, Ronnie Tanner and wife Karen of Fairfield and Elmer
Tanner and wife Mandy of Corsicana; daughter, Brenda Kay Barron and husband Don
of Corsicana; seven grandchildren, Mike Patrick of Dallas, Terry and Monica
Patrick of Rice, Ronnie J., Bryan and Kayla Tanner of Fairfield, and Allison
and Dustin Tanner of Corsicana; one great-grandchild, Tanner Douglass Patrick;
and sister, Tommie Ruth Blackburn of Corsicana.
Arrangements by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home.