Jean Spatig Tanner

Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend, Jean Spatig Tanner, 90, passed away August 21, 2025, at the Maple Springs Senior Center of natural causes.

Jean was born on August 7, 1935, in Preston, Idaho and was adopted by her loving parents Gottfried and Maude Spatig. She grew up on small farm on the north side of Preston. At Preston High School she enjoyed singing in the choir and was a member of the marching corps. There she met the love of her life, Glen Tanner, and decided to attend Utah State University, as that is where Glen was also attending school. Following his mission to California, they married in the Logan LDS Temple on December 16, 1955. After living in Logan and Preston for a short time, they moved to the Tanner family farm in Whitney where they lived for most of their lives. Jean supported Glen through finishing his college degree and his career at Del Monte, working on the family farm, and most of all, working tirelessly as the mother of seven children. She learned to sew at 13 and spent more than 20 years teaching in the Franklin County 4-H club program. She served as President of the Preston Kiwanis Club auxiliary K’Anns. In 1989 she traveled on her first international trip to Poland and Czechoslovakia as a chaperone for the PHS choir.

Jean’s hobbies included bowling, golf, flower arranging, gardening and craft work including stained glass. She was active in the LDS church her entire life and always held a church calling. In 1995, Jean and Glen served a mission in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. There they spent most of their time teaching new converts how to find their ancestors and do temple work.

After retirement, Glen and Jean, spent winters in Mesa, Arizona at a second home near his sister Dorothy and her husband William K Dunkley. They spent many happy months there enjoying visiting with friends, golfing, riding ATVs in the Arizona desert, making stained glass, and hosting get togethers.

Jean is survived by her children, Alan (Christine), Teri Porter (Edmond), David (Tee), Vaughn (Alaine), Roy (Linda), Diane Kovach (Ted) and Sharon Hern (Gene), 24 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Glen and her parents.

The family would like to thank the staff at Maple Springs of Logan for the loving care to our mother the past eight years. She enjoyed living there and we are grateful to them.

A service celebrating the life of Jean will be held at the Whitney Ward Chapel, 1444 S. 1600 E., Whitney, Idaho on Friday, August 29, 2025, at 11:00 AM. A viewing will be held Friday from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the church. This is a fragrance-free event for the health of the family. Interment will be in the Whitney Cemetery. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at webbmortuary.com

The services will be streamed live and may be watched on Friday at 11 am (MST) by clicking on the following link:

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