Taubert, Reno
Passed: 1987-11-28
Age: 70
Source: Jackson Herald
Death Notice: 1987-11-30
Obituary Date:
Information: Funeral services were held Nov. 30, 1987, for Reno Taubert, 70, of Wooster, Ohio. He died Nov. 28 in a Wooster nursing home. He was superintendent of Cedar Lakes Camp and Conference Center during the 60's. He was born in 1917 in Shirley, Tenn., to Curt R. and Ella Hull Taubert and married Jessie Davis Taubert, June 19, 1940. He had moved to Wooster in 1979 from Ripley. He had taught vocational agriculture at Clay County High School for 27 years. He served as Program Specialist in vocational agriculture with the West Virginia State Department of Education. He was a former member of the FFA-FHA Foundation, Inc. board of trustees, member of the FFA advisory committee, member of the committee that selected the site for the FFA-FHA Camp and Conference Center, was a former member of the advisory committee from vocational education for the Bureau of Vocational Technical and Adult Education and former member of the Jackson County vocational education advisory committee. He was chairman of the finance committee that secured funds for the construction of the Vo-Ag Teachers Cottage at Cedar Lakes, former member of the Mountain State Art and Craft Fair board of directors. Surviving: wife, Jessie; two children, Robert S. (Bob) of Horse Shoe, N.C. and Mrs. Larry (Marilyn Louise) Summers of Wooster, Ohio; four grandchildren; four brothers, Hubert of Allardt, Tenn., Lucian of Muncie, Ind., Cordis of Jamestown, Tenn., and Reece of Nashville, Tenn.; four sisters, Mrs. Howard (Tena) Smith of Englewood, Fla., Mrs. Clyde (Zelia) Stephens of Allardt, Tenn., Mrs. Glen (Rose) Smith of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hazel Williams of Nashville, Tenn. An infant son and two sisters preceded him in death.