Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — Obituary of Mrs D. E. Tanner. [ARTICLE]

Obituary o f Mrs D. E. Tanner.

Mrs. Tillie Tanner was bom at Kouts, ’ Porter county, Ind., Jan. 17, 1875, and died at her home near Rensselaer, Feb. 28, 1908, at the age of 33 years, 1 month, 11 days. She was the seventh child of August and Pauline Steinke. Her father died when she was but a year old and the following year her mother with the family moved to Jasper county near DeMotte.

July 16, 1892, at DeMotte, she was married (o Daniel Tanner and to this union two children were born, one dying in infancy. She and her husband moved to the Thompson & Lawler ranch near town several years ago and Bhe has nobly assisted her husband' in caring for that great farm. The few short weeks of 1 her sickness she suffered uncomplainingly. She was greatly beloved by all those who knew her and her untimely death was a terrible blow to her relatives and friends. She leaves a mother, a husband, a son, four brothers and two sisters to mourn her loss. /