Viola B Tanner

Viola B Tanner

Female 1909 - 1993  (84 years)


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  • Name Viola B Tanner  [1
    Birth 29 Jan 1909  New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 1 Nov 1993 
    Person ID I41302  Stewartsny
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Father Arbie Tanner,   b. 15 Dec 1879, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1958 (Age 78 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Mae Tilkins,   b. 5 Jul 1879, Boylston, Oswego, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Oct 1955 (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 26 Oct 1899  [1
    Family ID F9997  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Arthur Wayne Phelps,   b. Mar 1901, Port Ontario, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1948 (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage 13 May 1928  Pulaski, Oswego, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Donald Richard Phelps,   b. 9 Dec 1928   d. 19 Apr 1979 (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Eugene Franklin Phelps,   b. 4 Apr 1930   d. 18 Jun 1934 (Age 4 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F13133  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

  • Notes 
    • 3727. Viola B. Tanner Phelps - January 29, 1909 - November 1, 1993. Plot P-269. Daughter of Arby and Mae Tilkins Tanner. Wife of Arthur Wayne Phelps.
      Newspaper Obituary - Tuesday, November 2, 1993 Watertown Daily Times - Watertown, New York - Viola B. Phelps of Skaneateles Dies at Age 84 - Viola B. Phelps, 84, of Skaneateles, formerly of Pulaski, died Monday at Community-General Hospital, Syracuse. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Foster-Hax Funeral Home, with the Rev. Elizabeth Mowry, pastor of Park United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Pulaski Cemetery. A calling hour will be one hour prior to the funeral at the funeral home. Surviving are a brother, Earl Tanner, Henderson; three grandchildren, Donald Phelps Jr., Marcellus, Donna Fellows, Syracuse, and Nancy Sneed, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and three great-grandchildren. Two sons, Gene and Donald Phelps Sr., died before her. Born January 29, 1909, in Sandy Creek, a daughter of Arbie and Mae Tilkins Tanner, she attended Mannsville District Schools and married Wayne Phelps in 1928. He died in 1948. She lived in Pulaski from 1928 to 1987, when she moved to Skaneateles. She retired in 1972 after 22 years with Crouse-Hinds Company, Syracuse.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;), Database online.
      Record for Arbie Tanner
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=495434550&indiv=try