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Submitted: 10/5/17 • Approved: 5/28/18 • Last Updated: 5/31/18 • R1197708-G0-S3
AVIATION STOREKEEPER PETTY OFFICER THIRD CLASS
US Navy
June 6, 1935 - May 23, 2015
*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
EUREKA SPRINGS - Robert William Tancre, 79, of Eureka Springs, passed away May 23, 2015, in Eureka Springs, Ark. He was born June 6, 1935, in Cleveland, Ohio, to John and Annette Goltscher Tancre.
Robert was an educator for over half his life. He was also a parole and probation officer in Arkansas. He was a disability adjudicator for the State of Alaska for 10 years.
Robert is predeceased by his parents and two sisters, Joanne Tancre Reynolds and Elaine Tancre York.
Robert is lovingly remembered by his wife, Martha Yarbrough Tancre of Eureka Springs; his daughter, Sabrina Ford and her husband Rick of Springdale, Ark.; two stepsons, Richard Bessent and his wife Sheila of Ft. Worth, Texas and Randall Spears and his wife Tracy of Arlington, Texas; a sister, Bonnie Tancre of Fort Collins, Colo.; and three grandchildren Ahren Trivitt, Keely Ford and Layne Ford.
The visitation will be held 5-7 p.m., Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at Westfield Chapel Funeral Home in Springdale.
The funeral service will he 10 a.m., Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at Sonora Baptist Church. Interment to follow at Sonora Cemetery.
Please share your fond thoughts and memories of Robert on his memorial at vww.WestfieldChapel.com.
Contributed on 10/5/17 by wfields55
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