Elvin "Jack" Herman Tacke

COTTONWOOD A rosary will be recited for E.H. (Jack) Tacke, 90, a former state sen ator and Cottonwood area real estate salesman, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Mary's Catholic Church here. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Mary's with the Rev. Jo seph Muha officiating. Burial will follow at the Cottonwood Catholic Cemetery.

Tacke died of complications of Parkinson's disease Wednesday March 27, 1991 at the Grangeville Care Center.

He was born to Herman and Elizabeth Wahle Tacke Feb. 23, 1901, at Danbury, Iowa, and the following year his parents moved to Cottonwood. He received his education at Cottonwood and at Mount Angel, Ore.

Tacke married Merline Untereiner June 7, 1926, at Dimock, S.D. After their marriage they operated their farm south of Cottonwood. They moved to Grangeville in 1932 after he was elected Idaho County assessor. He served five terms as assessor. They returned to the farm at Cottonwood in 1942 and he entered the real estate business.

He was appointed manager of the Cottonwood Federal Land Bank Association in 1953 and served in that capacity for 13 years. Tacke was elected Idaho State Senator from District 8 in 1973 and represented the district unitl retiring in 1977.

He was a chairman for many civic projects including the Grangeville swimming pool, the Cottonwood Community Hall and the Idaho County Farm museum. Tacke was a communicant of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Cottonwood, a member of the Knights of Columbus, and was a charter member and past president of both the Grangeville and Cottonwood Lion's Clubs.

Survivors include his wife at the Grangeville Care Center; three sons, Mark Tacke of Cottonwood, Tom Tacke of Seattle and Jack Tacke of Arlington, Wash.; a daughter, Sister May Paule of Transkei, South Africa; 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sons, R.L. (Pat) Tacke and William Tacke; a brother, Raymond A. Tacke; and a sister, Hilda Seubert.