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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:55 PM


ELMER TANKERSLEY

Elmer Tankersley, age 94, of Rantoul, Kan., died Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at his residence. He was born Thursday, Feb. 11, 1915, at his home in Rosedale, Kan., the son of John Watson and Ann Mabel (Ackerman) Tankersley.

He grew up in Rosedale and drove his first car at age 9. He was charged with getting ice and water daily from the ice house in Rosedale. He lived in Rosedale until his marriage to Goldie L. Hester July 24, 1935, when they eloped to Leavenworth, Kan. After marriage, they purchased Goldie’s parents’ home and moved to Merriam, Kan., in the late 1930s, where they lived until the summer of 1968 when he and Goldie built their home on a farm in Rantoul.

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