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Robert William Tanner Sr., a decorated veteran of three wars who was among the last North Texas survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, died of cancer Dec. 23 in Cedar Hill. He was 99. Tanner was born Dec. 5, 1921, in Fairfield, N.Y., into a family of 11 children. His father died when he was young, and his mother, …

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