Reverend Russell E. Tarver, 83 passed away on May 2, 2014 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Reverend Tarver retired served 38 years at Chester-Colton, Wesley Foundation Brookings, Vermillion, Northern District Superintendent. Huron First, co-campus minister at University of South Dakota, with his wife, Jinny, McCook Lake and Sioux Falls Southern Hills churches in the Dakotas Conference.
A Celebration of the Life of Pastor Russ Tarver will be held at First United Methodist Church at 401 S. Spring Ave. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Friday, May 16, 2014 at 3:00 pm.