TANNER, Marion L.

Joseph City -- Funeral services for Marion L. Tanner, 74, lifelong resident here who died Saturday, Dec. 5, 1964, in the Joseph City Hospital, will be tomorrow (Dec. 8, 1964). Bishop Ross D. Hansen will officiate at services in the Joseph City Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial will be in the Joseph City Cemetery. Mr. Tanner, born in Joseph City when it still had the name of St. Joseph, worked in his early years on road construction, hauling gravel by horse-drawn wagon and manning a horse-powered pile-driving hammer. Also, for many years he managed a services station in Joseph City. In the 1930s he joined the Sharp and Fellow Railroad Contractors as a construction superintendent. The firm, builders of the Santa Fe, sent him from California to Kansas in his work. He also took part in the rebuilding of the Joseph City Irrigation Dam. Survivors include his widow, Belle E.; two sons, Evans M. and Charles M., both of Phoenix; three daughters, Mrs. Pearl Jacobson, Phoenix; Mrs. Mildred Palmer, Taylor, and Mrs. Alma Carr, Gardenia, California. Also surviving are five brothers, Rollin C. of Phoenix, Thomas W. of Mesa; Arthur of Winslow; George of Salt Lake City, and Golden, of Richfield, Utah; three sisters, Mrs. Ida Rogers, Phoenix, Mrs. Eva Shelley, Mesa; and Mrs. Donnette Fuller, serving an LDS mission in Minnesota; 20 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Alcorn Mortuary, Holbrook, is handling funeral arrangements. The Arizona Republic Monday, Dec. 7, 1964.