Cecil E. Taber

GLENS FALLS Cecil E. Taber, 99, a resident of Glens Falls passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 22, 2008, at the Adirondack Tri-County Nursing Home in Johnsburg. He was born on Aug. 15, 1908, in Chestertown, and was the son of the late William and Mamie (Butler) Taber. Mr. Taber was an elder in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Queensbury Ward. He served a mission in The Washington, D.C. Temple for 27 months. He was Mason and Past Master of Salem Lodge No. 391, Salem, N.Y. Cecil was a United States Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict. During his tours he served as Chief Aviation Storekeeper, the Naval Air Transport Service in Hawaii during World War II and with The Sixth Fleet on The Air Craft Carrier Coral Sea CVB43 in The Mediterranean Sea during the Korean Conflict. During his youth he worked for the D and H Railroad and he had a special interest in trains all his life. He also did extensive genealogy on his family and was a genealogy instructor at the church. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by a brother, Paul George Taber and sister, Eleanor Cecele Brunell. Survivors include his loving wife of 20 years, Frances E Muse Taber of Glens Falls; step-daughter, April K. Muse and her fiancé, Matthew Heflin, both of Springfield, Va. He is also survived by two nephews, Burton Brunell and his wife, Donna, of Clifton Park, David Taber of Watervliet; niece, Linda Hogan and her husband, John, of Michigan, and their son, Ryan; and grandnephews, Scott Brunell and his wife, Marianna, of Halfmoon and their children, London and Keegan, Sean Brunell and his wife, Liz, of Clifton Park and their daughter, Eden. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Friday, July 25, 2008, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Rockwell Road, Queensbury. Burial will follow at Southside Cemetery, South Glens Falls. Relatives and friends are invited and may also call on Friday, from noon until the time of the service at the church on Rockwell Road. In lieu of flowers, those who wish may send a remembrance in his name to Humanitarian Fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 50 East North Temple St., Floor 7, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-6890 or to the Disabled American Veterans Association, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301. The family would like the thank the staff at the Adirondack Tri-County Nursing Home for thier kindness and compassion and his special friends and helpers Petra, Susan, Peggy Ann and Jay. Arrangements are under the direction of the Regan and Denny Funeral Home, 53 Quaker Road, Queensbury.