FERN TAFFNER

NEVADA, Mo.-Services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Konantz Warden Funeral Home in Lamar for Fern Elizabeth (Walker) Taffner, 94, who died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, at Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Hannah Lamb Memorial Scholarship fund, in care of the funeral home.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include a son, Jerry Taffner and wife Karen, Lamar; a daughter, Peggy Jo Gilkey and husband Joe, Nevada, Mo.; a daughter-in-law, Carolyn M. Taffner; grandchildren, Jerod Lamb and wife Lisha Jo, Sheldon, Angie Schlichting and husband Matthew, Lamar and Joshua Lamb and wife Abbey, Sheldon; nine great-grandchildren, Logan, Bryce and Uric Lamb, Aiden “A.D.” Ellifrits, Megan and Dalton Schlichting and Zavery, Deborah and Mariam Lamb and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a son, Lester Carl Taffner; a great-granddaughter, Hannah Lamb; two brothers, Lester Carl “Bud” and Gerald Dean Walker; a sister, Katherine “Kay” Faye McDonald and an infant sister, Josephine Eleanor Walker.

Mrs. Taffner was born Feb. 9, 1922, to Louis and Nellie Mae (Thornburg) Walker, at home in Aaron (Bates County). She attended school at McKinley School and spent her childhood in the Creighton and Urich area. She married Carl Asey Taffner on Oct. 28, 1939, in Carthage and they moved to rural Barton County, near Jasper. She enjoyed life on the farm, where she spent over 70 years. She loved gardening and canning and was blessed with a green thumb. She moved to Spring Village in Nevada five years ago.

She was of the Methodist faith and attended Boston Methodist Church until its closing. For the last 25 years she enjoyed attending Anchor Fellowship in Nevada and Sheldon Baptist Church.