The Tanner Home: A Legacy of Love and Shelter

The Tanner Family Home

The Stewart and Janet Coats Tanner home was more than walls and a roof—it was a sanctuary of love, faith, and belonging. To step across its threshold was to enter a place filled with understanding, laughter, and peace. It offered shelter not only from storm or injury but from doubt, division, and fear.

For the children who grew up there, returning after years away was like stepping back into a cherished memory. Familiar places spoke with their own voices: the tall shade trees their father had planted, the honeysuckle vine that mother carefully trained around the windows, the stone walks and winding paths leading to the pump house, the tamarack-covered wash house, the sturdy coal shed, and the well-built cellar—always freshly whitewashed, cool, and filled with the sound of running water.

It was a place where hard work and hospitality went hand in hand, where neighbors and family alike were welcome, and where simple beauty was nurtured in every corner. The Tanner Family Home was not just a dwelling in Granger; it was a place where values were instilled, memories rooted, and love left its lasting mark.

As Fern Tanner, the youngest child of Stewart and Janet, later wrote: “Magnificent memories of this home… it was a home filled with love and understanding, a place of peace.”

Stewart & Janet’s family 1898