C. A. Tanner Fatally Injured in Fall
From Church Roof

LARGE CROWD AT FUNERAL

Deceased Was In Business In Farnam
For Many Years

C. A. Tanner, one of Farnam’s most respected citizens, passed to his reward on Saturday, November 12. He has been for nearly twenty years a resident of Farnam and was always one of the most progressive and wide-awake men of the town. He had a wide circle of friends, who will miss him dearly.

Mr. Tanner received fatal injuries last Thursday in a fall from the roof of the Congregational church, where he was helping with the shingling.

The funeral services was held in the Bayley hall on Tuesday. The hall was packed with the crowds who came to pay their last tribute of love and respect to the deceased.

Many will recall especially the part he took in making a success of the banquet given the basketball team of F. H. S. at the close of the season last year, in honor of the remarkably fine record the boys had made at the tournament. He was always ready to lend a hand in any good work.

His departure is the loss of all and the whole community joins with the family and relatives in their sorrow.

Carl A. Tanner was born at Iowa City, Ia., June 12, 1886. There he spent his boyhood days and received his education. He came to Farnam when eighteen years of age, where on October 4, 1905 he was married to Miss Alma Brown, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. [Henry] Brown. He has resided here since with the exception of two years that he managed a store in Norfolk.

On November 10, while helping shingle the Congregational church, he fell from the roof and was seriously hurt. He passed on into that better world on November 12 at 3 p.m. following his son, Jack, who died four years ago.

For over fifteen years he has been a member of the Congregational church. He also belonged to the I. O. O. F.

Beloved and respected by those who knew him best, he passes on into that better world, leaving us the memory of a worthy life—a loving husband, a dutiful son, a kind brother and a loyal and true friend. We shall miss his sunny smile and kindly words.

He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, his father, three sisters, Mrs. H. W. Flint of Waterloo, Ia., Mrs. Ed Folensby of Helena, Mont., Dortha Tanner of Iowa City, Ia., and four brothers, Frank Jr. Waterloo, John F. of Chicago, Ill., Samuel H. and Morris of Iowa City.

Let us trust with holy men of old
That not all the story here begun is told;
That by the dim light of the torch reversed,
It will read not "finis" but "the end of volume first."
Life’s race well run,
Life’s crown well won,
Life’s work well done,
Now comes rest.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Bayley’s hall, a large company of friends being present to pay the last tribute of respect to a faithful friend. John E. Craig, a former pastor of the church, who received Carl into the church and married him, came from Dunning to officiate.

The Farnam Press, 18(3):1 Thursday, November 17, 1921.