Edna Taber Retires 2007

Enda with her boys grown began a 32 year career as an assistant librarian at Culver-Union Township Librar in 1974, retiring in 2006.

In her earlier years there, she was tasked with cleaning and repairing projection films for several area libraries, before the films were redistributed.

One of her most lasting achievements at the library was the cataloging and organizing of the necrology file, which had consisted of a large collection of unorganized obituaries. Her indexing of these obituaries will be a big help to historians, genealogist and researchers for years to come.

Edna Marie (Tetzloff) Taber
Feb 21, 1920 - July 20, 2009 Edna Marie (Tetzloff) Taber, 89, died Monday, July 20, 2009, at home in Culver. She was born February 21, 1920, 3 miles south of North Judson in Rich Grove Township, Pulaski County, Ind. She was a daughter of August Tetzloff and Johannah (Hoeckelberg) Tetzloff. All four of Edna's grandparents were immigrants from Germany.


She was raised in Rich Grove Township in Sears and Roebuck home her father assembled. The home had no indoor plumbing while she grew up there.

She had two older siblings, both deceased, Evelyn (Tetlzloff) Dalka, wife of Kenneth Dalka, and Eug Tetzloff, husband of Irene (Hawbrook) Tetzloff.

Edna attended the county schools in Rich Grove Township until middle school, when she attended the Lutheran school in North Judson. She attended high school at North Judson High School, graduating one your ahead of her classmates in 1937. In 1938 and 1939, she attended the South Bend College of Commerce where she learned bookkeeping skills.

In 1940, she moved to Culver, Ind. and was employed at Culver Military Academy in the bookkeepin department. One of her workmates, Hazel Cook, was the spouse of Charles Cook, a classmate of William "Bill" W. Taber, and the Cooks introduced Edna to Bill. Shortly after Bill was discharged from the US Army, he and Edna married on July 11, 1945 in Saint Peter's Lutheran Church in North Judson. Since that time, Edna has attended the Wesley United Methodist Church in Culver, of which she and Bill were faithful members.

In 1957, Bill purchased the Culver News Agency on Main Street, and remained the proprietor there until his retirement. During those years, Edna was the store's bookkeeper, performing her bookkeeping duties at home in evenings and weekends, otherwise tending to raising her three sons and maintaining the home during the daytime. Edna also helped Bill with his photography studio business which operated out of the home. Bill was strictly a black and white photographer in the 1940's and 1950's, and Edna would skillfully tint his black and white prints to add color to the portraits he took of many Culver residents. With her boys grown...

In her spare time, Edna enjoyed solving crossword puzzles, often photocopying newspaper crosswords at the library so she could work on them at home. She also enjoyed flower gardening and feeding birds in the back yard. She loved cats and the company her pet cats always provided.

She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother, a faithful servant of her Lord, Jesus Christ, and a dear friend to many in the community, especially those who's company she shared at Real Meals. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

Surviving are her three sons, James H. (Cynthia) Taber, Indianapolis, Robert E. Taber, Plymouth, and William L. Taber, Indianapolis; and two grandchildren, Matthew H. (Casey) Taber, and Jaime M. Taber, both of Indianapolis. She was preceded in death by her parents, siblings and husband.

Services will be held at 1 PM on Friday, July 24, 2009 at Wesley United Methodist Church in Culver, with visitation at the church, 2 hours prior.

Burial in Culver Masonic Cemetery will immediately follow the service.

Funeral services are entrusted to Bonine-Odom Funeral Home, Culver. Memorial Contributions may be made to the Wesley United Methodist Church, or to Real Services in Culver.