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Show DR. f. R. TANNER PIES OE INFLUENZA Dr. F. R. Tanner, one of Mount Pleasant's dentists died in this city of Influenza Thursday about mid-.night. mid-.night. He was ill but a short time. He came home from Payson Sunday where his brother Willard was hurried hur-ried last week. His body will be taken to Payson Saturday for burial. Dr. Tanner leaves a wife and two babies, a girl two years old and a boy 5 months. He is a son of Delos Tanner and Armina Ellsworth, both deceased. He was born January 16, 1894 at Payson, Utah. Dr. Tann.er has a brother, Arthur, ill with pneumonia. His brother Walter Wal-ter is over seas on the fighting front. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Marion Green of American Fork and Mrs. Jesse Johnson of Payson. His aunt, Mrs. Olive Tanner Bott, was hurried Saturday. Her husband is in France with the American Army. Two of Dr. Tanner's uncles, Dr. J. H. Ellsworth and Dr. L. M. Ellsworth, Ells-worth, his grandfather, German E. Ellsworth and his brother-in-law, Jesse Johnson came to Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant to'day to arrange for moving the family and the body to Payson. Eight membersof the Tanner family fam-ily have died during the past two weeks. Dr. Tanner graduated from the Payson High School and then filled a mission to the Northern States, most of his time being spent at Chicago, Chica-go, where he later graduated from the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. Sur-gery. He came to Mount Pleasant last spring and has made a host of friends in: this city, whose sympathies go out for the widow and babies. |