Taplin, Howard I.

TAPLIN, LAING, MEHLBERG, HURST, BAILEY, HOYER

Posted By: Ruth Maring - Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/14/2007 at 15:25:53

Taplin, Howard I.

Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Law-Jones Funeral Home, Savanna.
SERVICES: 11 a.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Derinda, Ill., with the Rev. Kurt Hansen officiating.

SAVANNA, Ill. — Howard I. Taplin, 92, of Savanna, died Monday at Big Meadows Nursing Home, Savanna. Burial will be in Derinda Trinity Lutheran Cemetery.

He was born Jan. 27, 1915, to Lee and Jennie Laing Taplin in Miles. On Jan. 27, 1937, he married Berniece D. Mehlberg at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Preston. She died in 2005. He farmed in Sabula and moved to Savanna in 1951 where he farmed for 50 years. He also worked at the Savanna Army Depot during World War II and the Korean War. He later worked with Interstate Power Co. as a serviceman for 25 years before retiring in 1979. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and was a former trustee.

Survivors include one son, Terry (Jill) Taplin of Belvidere, Ill.; two daughters, Shirley (Mike) Hurst of Conroe, Texas, and Carolyn (Gary) Bailey of Cottage Grove, Minn.; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one sister, Marge Hoyer of Sabula.

Memorials may be given to the Trinity Accessibility Building Fund in his name. Condolences may be made online at www.lawjonesfuneralhome.com.

He was preceded in death by his wife, two brothers, two sisters and one son in-law.

Death date: Oct. 8, 2007
Published in the Clinton Herald from 10/12/2007 - 10/14/2007