The Seattle Times Thursday, August 11, 1966
Page 8, Column 2
Clayton O. Tanberg, 85
Memorial services for Clayton O. Tanberg, 85, of 16236 37th Avenue Northeast, will be at 11 o’clock Saturday in the Acacia Chapel, preceded by cremation. He died yesterday at his home.

Born in Monroe, Wisconsin, Mr. Tanberg came to Seattle from Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1910. He first was employed by the Seattle Can Co., then in 1934 became an examiner with the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. Later he was a Bank Examiner until retiring in 1951. After retiring he continued dong auditing until about three years ago.

Mr. Tanberg was a member of the University Congregational Church and a former longtime member of Plymouth Congregational Church. He and his wife, May, had been married 62 years.

Surviving besides his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Halbert S. Moran, Kirkland and Mrs. Warren Walker, Richmond Beach.

The family suggested remembrances to charity.

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The Seattle Times Thursday, August 11, 1966
Page 9, Column 2
Deaths, Funerals
Tanberg, Clayton O., 16236 37th Avenue Northeast, age 85 years, August 10. Beloved husband of May. Father of Mrs. Halbert S. (Barbara) Moran, Kirkland; Mrs. Warren (Roberta) Walker, Richmond Beach, Washington. Eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Memorial services 11AM, Saturday, Acacia Funeral Home. Contributions may be made to your favorite charity.

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The Seattle Times Saturday, July 23, 1977
Page C20, Column 2
Deaths and funerals
Paid notices
May E. Tanberg
Age 92, July 14. Widow of Clayton O. Tanberg. Mother of Barbara R. Moran and Roberta A. Walker of Seattle. Eight grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren. No service.

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The Seattle Sunday Times Sunday Morning, June 12, 1932
Page 15, Column 1
Miss Tanberg Is Bride Of Mr. H.S. Moran
Amid a setting of white and green the marriage of Miss Barbara Ruth Tanberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton O. Tanberg, to Mr. Halbert Sutliff Moran, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hampton Moran, was solemnized in the Tanberg home at 8:30 o’clock Saturday evening, June 4.

The living room where the ceremony was read by the Rev. L. Wendell Fifield was decorated with white peonies and the fireplace banked with the peonies and vine maple. Tall standards filled with the same flowers and tied with fluffy white tulle bows held lighted cathedral candles, marking the aisle down which the bridal party passed. Preceding the services Mr. Walter Reseburg sang “I Love You Truly” and “Because.” He was accompanied by Mrs. Reseburg, who also played the wedding marches.

The bridal party was led by two little flower girls, cousins of the bride, Mildred Jean and Marilyn Novak, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. A. Novak. They wore dainty frocks of French organdie, in pastel blue and green and carried baskets of rose petals

Miss Roberta Alice Tanberg, sister of the bride, as maid of honor was gowned in pink embroidered chiffon and carried an arm bouquet of Talisman roses and sweet peas.

The bride, given in marriage by her father, selected for her bridal dress a gown of white lace, fashioned on the new long lines and trimmed with touches of Chantilly lace, which enhanced her delicate Titian loveliness. Her veil was of tulle and Chantilly, forming a cap effect, real orange blossoms being caught on either side. She carried a shower bouquet of pink rosebuds and white sweet peas. The bridegroom was attended by Mr. Robert Taylor as best man.

An informal reception followed, the rooms throughout the house bring decorated in pink and white, carried out with pink roses and white peonies. Assisting were Mrs. Fred T. Merritt, Mrs. A.C. Gaul of Tacoma, Mrs. Hampton Moran, Mrs. Robert H. Lee, Mrs. A.K. Marriott, Mrs. Arthur Sargent, Miss Herta Albrecht, Miss Ruth Merritt, Miss Marjorie Ewing, Miss Mariruth Moran, Miss Florence Marriott and Miss Mildred Howard of Stanwood.

Mrs. Tanberg, mother of the bride, wore a model of light blue satin and Mrs. Moran, the bridegroom’s mother, was in black lace. Both wore corsages of pink roses, sweet peas and violets.

Mr. Moran and his bride left on a wedding trip to California, the bride traveling in a sport costume of green, with white accessories. Upon their return they will be at home in Enumclaw.

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The Seattle Daily Times Saturday, October 17, 1936
Page 7, Column 6
Miss Tanberg And Mr. Walker Wed in Church
The Dresden daintiness of pink and white dahlias, shining in the light of many candles, formed the setting for the wedding last evening of Miss Roberta Alice Tanberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton O. Tanberg and Mr. William Warren Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Ancel Walker of Yakima and Washington, D.C.

Dr. L. Wendell Fifield, clergyman of Plymouth Congregational Church, read the service at 8:30 o’clock at Prospect Congregational Church.

Preceding the service, Mr. John Rarig sang Grieg’s “I Love Thee” and “O Promise Me,” accompanied by Mr. Oddvar Winther, organist, who played the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches.

Bride in White Lace
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a gown of white lace with a train and her tulle veil fell from a circlet of seed pearls and orange blossoms. The gown was worn by Mrs. Charles Bradford (Betty Lee) at her recent wedding. Her flowers were white bouvardia, pink roses and showers of Cecil Brunner roses.

Mrs. Halbert S. Moran, in green velvet with a wreath of gold leaves in her hair and carrying a bouquet of yellow roses and bronze chrysanthemums, was her sister’s only attendant. Barbara Estes, wearing a yellow frock, was flower girl and Gary Estes, in a white silk suit, was ring bearer.

Best man was Mr. Merritt Tanberg, brother of the bride.

Ushers were Messrs. Fred S. Merritt, Halbert S. Moran, Marcus Rohlfs and Greg Fields.

Reception Held at Home
At the reception at the Tanberg home, Mrs. Fred T. Merritt, aunt of the bride; Mrs. A.K. Marriott, Mrs. Arthur W. Sargent and Mrs. Leonard Vaupell poured. Mrs. Robert H. Lee cut the bride’s cake. Assisting were Mrs. F.M. Butler, Mrs. Fred S. Merritt, Mrs. A.C. Gaul, Mrs. George D. Eastman, Mrs. Liberino Patricelli and the Misses Jania Baggott, Marion Hood, Bernice and Edith Johnson.

The centerpiece of the table was of pink roses and feathery white chrysanthemums with white tapers in silver holders.

Mrs. Tanberg wore wine velvet at her daughter’s wedding.

The bride is a graduate of the University of Washington, Class of 1934 and a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. The bridegroom is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1934 and is an Ensign on the U.S.S. New York. The couple left by motor for Long Beach, California, where they will make their home.

For going away, Mrs. Walker wore a crepe dress of Napoleon blue, with a gray squirrel coat, gray hat and accessories.

Out of town guests at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Spencer of Yakima, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Halverson of Toppenish, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brooks of Bellingham and Mrs. A.C. Gaul and her son, Stuart of Tacoma.

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The Seattle Sunday Times Sunday, June 13, 1937
Page 3, Column 1
Miss Conkling, M.C. Tanberg Marriage Is Big Surprise
Coming as a surprise to the many friends of the popular young couple, is the announcement by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tallmadge Conover of the marriage of Mrs. Conover’s daughter, Miss Josephine Helen Conkling, to Mr. Merritt Clayton Tanberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Orvun Tanberg. The symbolic candlelight service took place at 6 o’clock Friday evening in beautiful Gothic Chapel of the University Unitarian Church, which, decorated with ivory blush peonies and ivory iris and gladioluses, was marked by more than the usual family sentiment and tradition.

In the soft glow from white tapers, with only the immediate families present, Dr. L. Wendell Fifield read a service written by the bride’s father, the late Captain Joseph Wade Conkling, for his marriage to her mother. The Bible used was one Captain Conkling, former pastor of the Unitarian Church of Atlanta, Georgia, physician and social worker, carried with him through the World War, in which he lost his life.

Schiaparelli Ensemble
The bride was stately and lovely in a Schiaparelli ensemble of dark blue porosa, the tailored lines of the frock accented by a vest of coted ivory bengaline and softened with a fingertip length cape that swung gracefully from the shoulders. With this she wore a large Hattie Carnegie blue straw sailor and carried a volume of the Psalms of David in a rare and beautiful binding of blue leather embossed with gold. Her corsage was of ivory bouvardia and her only jewels, a string of her mother’s pearls and a guard ring made from her mother’s wedding ring.

The bride and bridegroom, unattended, were preceded to the altar by little Barbara Jean Moran, niece of the bridegroom, in a quaint Empire gown of rose silk and carrying a basket of blue eyed daisies. Just before the service there was violin and organ playing of “Meditation” from Thais and during the reading of the service Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” followed with Rubenstein’s “Kammeroi Ostrow.”

Later, at a family dinner in the Wellesley Room of the Women’s University Club, ivory tapers in heirloom silver candelabras lighted the “U” shaped table, which held low silver bowls of ivory peony buds, white iris and lilies of the valley. After dinner the guests went to the drawing room, where the bride cut her wedding cake and with toasts and good wishes for their happiness, the couple left for a brief honeymoon in British Columbia.

Born in Florida
Mrs. Tanberg was born in Florida and spent her early childhood in the South, later coming with her mother to live in Seattle. She has traveled widely at home and in Europe. She graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California and returned here for post graduate work at the University of Washington.

Mr. Tanberg took his Bachelor’s degree from the University in 1936. He was affiliated there with Phi Sigma Kappa and became a member of Tau Kappa Alpha, national forensic honorary. Last year he received the Zeta Phi Eta honorary award for outstanding contributions to the Department of Speech, of which staff he is now a member. He will receive his Master’s degree this summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Tanberg will be at the home of the bridegroom’s parents during the summer while he is completing his thesis. In the fall they will leave for one of the eastern colleges, where Mr. Tanberg will continue his studies for his Doctor of Philosophy degree and Mrs. Tanberg will complete her Master’s degree in English.

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The Seattle Times Sunday, January 22, 1950
Page 24, Column 8
Deaths, Funerals
Tanberg, Merritt O., January 20, father of Lee Richard Tanberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton O. Tanberg, brother of Mrs. H.S. Moran, Spokane and Mrs. W. Warren Walker, San Diego, California. Member American Legion. Services at Bonney-Watson Co., Monday at 4:30PM.

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The Seattle Times Sunday, October 18, 1959
Page 6S, Column 2
Sally Mae Walker Engaged
Navy Captain William Warren Walker and Mrs. Walker of Arlington, Virginia and Seattle announce the engagement of their daughter, Sally Mae, to Mr. Richard L. Bruce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bruce of Walla Walla.

The couple attends Whitman College. The bride elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton O. Tanberg.

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The Seattle Times Sunday, June 30, 1963
Page 12S, Column 7
First Grandchild
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Bruce of Pomona, California, are the parents of a daughter, Karyn, born June 4. The baby is the first grandchild of Captain and Mrs. William Warren Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bruce of Walla Walla are the other grandparents. Great-grandparents are Mrs. W. Ancel Walker of Arlington, Virginia, Mrs. Myrtle Holm of Port Angeles and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton O. Tanberg.

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The Seattle Times Sunday, May 23, 1982
Page E7, Column 1
Anniversaries
Halbert Sutliff and Barbara Ruth Moran of Edmonds will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary June 4 with a family dinner and reception from 3 to 5PM June 6 at Plymouth Congregational Church.

They were married June 4, 1932, at the Seattle home of Mrs. Moran’s parents.

Moran, owner of Business Forms Supply and a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, is a past President of the Cascadian Club and is active in the University Lions Club and the Bothell Senior Center. Mrs. Moran, an artist, is a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. They participate in the American Association of Retired Persons and are former members of the Rigadoon Dance Club.

They have four children – Barbara Jean Srinson of Rancho Bernardo, California, Judith Grant of Bellevue, Gordon Moran of Sumner and Kathleen Trueblood and eight grandchildren.

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The Seattle Times Thursday, January 31, 1963
Page 39, Column 3
Mrs. George Charles George
Funeral services for Mrs. Charlotte Belle George of 19623 20th Avenue Northwest, Richmond Beach, will be at 11 o’clock Saturday morning in Beck’s Funeral Home, Edmonds, with burial in Evergreen.

Mrs. George died in a hospital Tuesday after a long illness.

Mrs. George, born in Monroe, Wisconsin, came to Seattle in 1916 and had lived in Richmond Beach for 30 years. Her husband, George Charles, died last May.

Mrs. George was a member of the Richmond Beach Congregational Church.

Survivors include a son, Clayton B. George and a brother, Clayton O. Tanberg, both of Seattle.

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The Seattle Daily Times Wednesday Evening, April 2, 1918
Page 25, Column 2
Deaths and Funerals
Merritt. At the family residence, 1711 East Boston Street, April 1, 1918, William H. Merritt, aged 69 years, beloved husband of Mrs. Maria Merritt and father of Fred T. and Dr. Walter D. Merritt and Mrs. May Tanberg; member F. & A.M. of Janesville, Wisconsin.

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The Seattle Times Tuesday, June 29, 1965
Page 40, Column 8
Fred Merritt, 94, Attorney
Private services for Fred T. Merritt, 94, of 105 Harvard Avenue East, will be at 2 o’clock tomorrow in the Bonney-Watson Chapel, with cremation following. He died yesterday in a hospital.

Born in Janesville, Wisconsin, Mr. Merritt first came to Seattle in 1900 on his way to Alaska. During the Gold Rush, he was a United States Commissioner in the Nome and St. Michael areas three years. He later lived in Centralia two years before coming to Seattle in 1906.

Mr. Merritt practiced law with Bogle, Merritt & Bogle and last was associated with the Skeel, McKelvy, Henke, Evenson & Uhlmann. He was a consultant and attorney until about two years ago. A trial and corporate attorney, he was Division Attorney for the Union Pacific Railroad more than 50 years.

A President of the Seattle Bar Association in the late 1930’s, Mr. Merritt was a member of the American, Washington State and Seattle-King County Bar Associations. He was a life member of the Rainer Club and an organizer of the Inglewood Golf and Country Club.

Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth E.; a son, Fred S. Merritt; a daughter, Mrs. Mildred L. Novak and a sister, Mrs. May Tanberg, all of Seattle; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.