The funeral will be at 4 p.m. today at Elliott Sons Funeral Home, Lumpkin Road, with the Rev. J. Emory Lindsey officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Mr. Tanner was a native of Washington County, Ga., and lived in Augusta for 28 years. He was a member of Lumpkin Road Baptist Road Church and a retired engineer technician in the civil service, He was a National Association for Stock Car Racing official, starter, flagman and driver. He was an active CBer in Augusta with the handle "Georgia Boy".
Survivors include his wife, Velma Smith Tanner; two daughters, Dianne Tanner Gearig, Louisville. Ga., and Patricia Tanner Branan, Augusta; and two sisters, Inez Marchman, Augusta, and Dorothy Mills, Milledgeville, Ga.
Pallbearers will be Silas Lord, Jack Watson, Johnny Smith, Richard Sayerhoefer, Jimmy Davis and Edward Mitchell.
The funeral will be at 4 p.m. today at Elliott Sons Funeral Home, Lumpkin Road, with the Rev. J. Emory Lindsey officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Mr. Tanner was a native of Washington County, Ga., and lived in Augusta for 28 years. He was a member of Lumpkin Road Baptist Road Church and a retired engineer technician in the civil service, He was a National Association for Stock Car Racing official, starter, flagman and driver. He was an active CBer in Augusta with the handle "Georgia Boy".
Survivors include his wife, Velma Smith Tanner; two daughters, Dianne Tanner Gearig, Louisville. Ga., and Patricia Tanner Branan, Augusta; and two sisters, Inez Marchman, Augusta, and Dorothy Mills, Milledgeville, Ga.
Pallbearers will be Silas Lord, Jack Watson, Johnny Smith, Richard Sayerhoefer, Jimmy Davis and Edward Mitchell.
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