Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1915 — OLIVER P. TABER DIES VERY SUDDENLY [ARTICLE]

OLIVER P. TABER DIES VERY SUDDENLY

Former Remington Citizen Fell Dead In Field Near Wabash—Funeral At Remington Friday. Oliver P. Taber, 70 years of age, for many years a resident of Remington and some years ago a county commissioner for the southern district of Jasper county, died suddenly Tuesday morning while looking at a farm near “Wabash in company with other men. It is understood that they were walking in a pastuer when he fell over dead.

The body will be shipped to Remington for burial and the funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Mr. Taber was prominent as a Knight of Pythias and that order will have charge of the ritualistic service at the grave, it being in charge of Rev. Charles W. Postill, who was a former pastor of the Remington M. E. church.

For a number of years Mr. Taber had been engaged in the stone road contracting business and this had taken him to Wabash, where he had resided for the past eight years. . He is survived by his second wife and by three children by his first wife, namely, Mrs. P. J. Pothuisje, of Denver, Colo., and Albert and George Taber, the latter of Bluffton. It is desired that all members of the K. of P. lodge who can do so, arrange to attend the funeral.