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Ada Goff Olsen Tanner

28 Feb 1907 – 18 Sep 1961

Birth	28 Feb 1907
Death	18 Sep 1961
Cemetery	Community of Christ Cemetery Vancleave , Jackson County , Mississippi , USA
Added by	LEEllis on 31 Dec 2009
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42143932

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Daughter of Sherwood Lafayette Goff & Ella Selena Mallette (Info on Ada's 1st husband is Louis Ludwig Olsen... Published in the Gulfport Daily Herald, Tues. May 29, 1917 FILED DECLARATION OF INTENTION There were filed in the office of United States Deputy Court Clerk of J.C. Tyler this morning declarations of intention to become American citizens by LOUIS OLSSON, 29 years, a farmer, who was born in SELARP, SWEDEN, and who is now a resident of Vancleave. Petitioner emigrated to Mobile, March 15, 1910....) 2nd husband is Roosevelt Tanner. ~~ The Mississippi Press, 'Mrs. Ada Tanner', Sept, 20, 1961 A prayer service at 1 o'clock this afternoon at Falls Funeral Home Chapel in Pascagoula for Mrs. Ada Tanner will be followed at 3 o'clock with the funeral service at the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints in Vancleave. Internment will follow in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Guy, J.W. and Cecil McMillian, Russell and Kenneth Goff, and Leonard Kitrell. Mrs. Tanner died early Monday at Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula following a lenghty illness. She was 54 and a native of Vancleave. Survivors include two brothers, Lafayette Goff of Biloxi, and Oscar Goff, of Moss Point, and two sisters, Mrs. Walter McMillian, of Vancleave and Mrs. Johnnie Faggard, of Kreole. Officiating at the funeral service will be the Rev. Raymond Booker, pastor of the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints, in Mobile, Alabama. Courtesy of Love in Family

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Family

Parents

• Sherwood Lafayette Goff 1879–1944
• Ella Selena Mallette Goff 1884–1919

Spouse

• Theodore Roosevelt Tanner 1906–1989 FaG

Siblings

• Oscar Fayette Goff 1903–1985
• Marie Goff McMillan 1905–1990
• Agnes Goff Faggard 1908–1989
• Lafayette Albert "Fayette" Goff 1910–1963
• Albert Sherwood Goff 1925–2004

Children

• Louis Sherwood Olsen 1924–1992 FaG
• Jesse James Olsen 1927–1929 FaG
• Elma Clyte Olsen Calton 1929–2014 FaG
• Pearl Olsen Noble 1931–2014 FaG
• Ellis Olsen 1933–2020 FaG
• Roy Eugene Tanner Sr 1940–2017 FaG
• Henry Earl Tanner 1943–2021 FaG

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