Dore Tanner

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Dore Clarence Tanner
19 Oct 1949 - 27 Jun 1998

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Obituary

TANNER, DORE C
In Sacramento on June 27, 1988. Beloved Partner of Lucien L. Agosta. Son of the late Dorothy A. and Clarence J. Tanner. Brother of Bonnie Louise Tanner, Thomas John Tanner, Joseph Michael Tanner, James Atlee Tanner, and the late Mary Jayne Tanner, and beloved brother-in-law of Virginia Tanner. Uncle of Trudy Lovell, Michael Tanner, Jennifer Tanner, Lorna Tanner, David Tanner, and Joseph Tanner, Jr. He is also survived by his close friends, Tim Martin and Katy Gray, He was a CPA and served as a fraud investigator with both the Auditor General's Office and the State Bureau of Audits and received special recognition for his involvement in a number of high profile fraud investigations for the State of California. He was 48 years old. Friends are welcome for visitation at W.F. GORMLEY at SONS CHAPEL, 2015 Capitol Avenue, Tuesday from 5:30pm until the Rosary service at 7:30pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, at 10am at St. Philomene Church, 2428 Bell Street. Private interment will be at Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made in his honor to the Conservatorship Program of the Sacramento Association for the Retarded, 2100 21st Sacto, 95818.^[1]

Legacy

In 2019, Lucien Agosta, Dore's theɲ-partner, published an autobiographical novel, Losing Time, which offers a frank account of gay life as they lived it in Sacramento, CA during the AIDS crisis.