Frank Osmond Tabberer

b. 3 December 1930, d. 31 May 2006
  • Frank Osmond Tabberer was born on 3 December 1930 in Rossville, Atascosa County, Texas.
  • He married Elsie Lillian Eckstrand on 3 January 1953 in Camrose, Alberta, Canada.
  • The SSDI lists Moab, Grand County, Utah, as the last residence of record of Frank Osmond Tabberer.
  • Frank Osmond Tabberer died on 31 May 2006 at age 75 in Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado.
  • His wife Elsie Lillian Eckstrand became a widow at his death.
  • The following appeared in the Pleasanton Express: Frank “Pancho” Tabberer was born December 3, 1930 in Rossville to Mary Alice and Herbert Tabberer. He passed away May 31, 2006 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Pancho was the middle child of seven children, Annette, Malcom, Tom, Robert, Hannah and Barbara. He is survived by his wife Elsie Tabberer and two children Louan (David) Adkison and Ross (Lois Oliver) Tabberer; six grandchildren, Christopher (Dionne) Adkison, Andrew (Amy) Adkison, Melissa Adkison, Jessica Tabberer, Amber (Keith) Hughes, and John Tabberer and two great-grandchildren, Isaac Lawley and Hailey Lawley. He is also survived by three sisters, and one brother, Annette Pratt, Hannah (Don) Bush, Barbara Stevenson and Robert (Lorene) Tabberer. Pancho grew up in Rossville, spending a lot of time working and playing on the farm, roping calves, riding horses, and being a typical boy in the South Texas rural countryside. He graduated from the local high school and attended business college in San Antonio. In 1949, Pancho went to work on a seismic crew. That job took him to Alberta, Canada where he worked in the central and northern sections. He met Elsie Eckstrand in 1950, at a local bank in Camrose, Alberta, where Elsie worked. He would come in to cash his paychecks. They were married January 3, 1953 in Camrose, Alberta at the United Church. Elsie was the love of his life, he was married to her for 53 and a half years. They moved a lot with the seismic work, and lived in Crosby, North Dakota, Wolf Point and Miles City, Montana, Fort Collins and Greeley, Colorado. In January 1954 Pancho was drafted into the Army. After boot camp at Colorado Springs and MP training in Augusta, Georgia, Elsie joined Pancho at Fort Hood, Texas , where Pancho was stationed for two years, serving as a military policeman and clerk. While at Ft. Hood, their first child Louan, was born September 14, 1956, at the base hospital. After receiving his discharge, Pancho and family moved to Farmington, New Mexico where he took a job working for the Bud Walter Explosives Company. While in Farmington, John Ross was born on December 31, 1957. The Bud Walter job transferred them to Moab, Utah in 1960 and later Pancho changed jobs going to work for W.H. Burt Explosives Company. They moved back to their own little home in Farmington, New Mexico in June 1963 and joined the Presbyterian church there. Pancho was a deacon and really enjoyed the church and the people. Will Henry Burt recognized the salesman in Pancho, and put him on the selling team. In 1966 Pancho and Elsie, along with lifelong friends, Bob and Nadine Barlow bought the Burt company. Being back in Moab in 1966 was a time Pancho chose to settle in to commitment to the church and church family. Pancho loved all the jobs he did at the church. Over the years he was a trustee and a deacon, a Sunday school teacher and the general board chairman. He was really good on the nominating committee because nobody could tell him no when he asked them to do a job. Every Sunday he would walk through the pews shaking everyone's hand and with genuine love and concern talk with the family. He loved all the people at the church; they were his family, too. As the grandkids came along, Pancho had a special place in his heart for each one. He would do anything for them. He always wanted what was best for his grandchildren. He and Elsie sold W.H. Burt Explosives in 1993 and five years later Pancho retired. Then he joined the hospital board, was president of the golf board, and was on the museum board. Pancho enjoyed the challenge each of these boards offered and made lots of new friends. We are going to miss him terribly because we all loved him so much. He was the life of our party-so-”When we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be...” Pancho can definitely say just like Paul did in 2 Timothy 4:7-8: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge will award to me on that day-not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing.” Donations in memory can be made to: The Youth Scholarship Fund, Box 88, Moab, Utah, 84532.
         
  • Last Edited: 3 Apr 2007

Family: Elsie Lillian Eckstrand b. 27 December 1928, d. 18 December 2006