Background
Tanner, Owen Ralph was born on July 6, 1915 in Layton, Utah, United States. Son of Alfonzo Z. and Vera Elizabeth (Noall) Tanner.
Tanner, Owen Ralph was born on July 6, 1915 in Layton, Utah, United States. Son of Alfonzo Z. and Vera Elizabeth (Noall) Tanner.
AB with honors, University Utah, 1936. Postgraduate, University Michigan, 1936. Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University, 1940.
Intern, San Francisco City and County Hospital, 1939-1940; resident, Stanford Lane Hospital, San Francisco, 1940-1942; associate and teaching assistant, Stanford University, San Francisco, 1942-1946; chief department ophthalmology, Palo Alto (California) Medical Clinic, 1946-1980; senior ophthalmologist, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 1980-1987; clinical professor surgical ophthalmology, Stanford (California) U. School Medicine, since 1980. Guest lecturer Ogden (Utah) Surgical Society, 1959, Intermountain Ophthalmological Society, 1959.
Board directors West Bay Opera Association. Board directors Stanford Museum Guild, trustee. Member American Academy Ophthalmology, San Francisco Ophthalmological Round Table, Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society (vice president 1968-1969, president pro tempore 1968, director ophthalmic education 1955-1963), Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Lodges: Kiwanis (past board directors).
Married Dorothy June Phillips, August 10, 1940 (deceased July 1955). Children: Dorothy, George, David, Richard. Married Marylou Mc Garry, October 25, 1959 (deceased November 1988).
Children: Garry, Patrick.