Title	Mr.
Last Name	Tasker
First Name	F.
Middle Name	D.
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Jakson, ME
Date of Birth	1850?
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death	1904-10-24
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 10-27-1904, p.5
Obituary	Rev. F. D. Tasker, one of God's faithful ministers was called to his rest from his home in Dexter Me., Oct. 24, 1904, aged 54 years, 2 months and 24 days. Mr. Tasker was born in Jackson, Me. At the age of twenty-eight he was converted and soon called to the ministry, receiving his license in Jan'y 1879, and ordination the following year; so about twenty-five years of his life had been devoted to the gospel ministry. In the early part of his ministry he was engaged in evangelistic work in Aroostook County, where he saw souls saved. Returning to his native town he took for his first pastorate the Jackson Village church and continued his labors four years, adding twenty two to the church. After closing his work in Jackson he served the Monroe and Thorndike churches. In the autumn of 1884 he accepted a call to Corinna where he remained three years, also supplying the most of the time the church in Exeter. In 1887 he took charge of the Atkinson and Charleston churches. In 1889 he settled at East Corinth where he remained nearly five years. From Corinth he was called to Oakland where he also had the pastoral care of the Waterville and Sidney church. From thence he came to Dexter in 1895. After serving the church five years he was called to the West Buxton and Hollis churches where he completed his public ministry. In all his pastorates he saw conversions and added members to the churches. It was the great sorrow of his life to be compelled to abandon the work he loved so well, but in that as in all the suffering he was called to endure he manifested a heroic spirit, born of living faith in Christ. The preaching of this worthy brother was by no means "with enticing words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power." Many who read these lines will recall times when he like tendered such Christlike sympathy to them when called to commit their loved ones to rest. He leaves to mourn their loss a wife and two children, a son and daughter. "Servant of God well done, Rest from thy blest employ; The battle fought the victory won, Enter thou into Joy!" B. D. N.