1925
Bill
2013
Bill Taylor
March 24, 1925 — November 8, 2013
Joe Walker Sr. will officiate. Burial will follow in Elkhorn Cemetery at Springville.
Family members will serve as pallbearers.
Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. today with a Masonic service at 7:30 p.m., and after 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Taylor, 88, died Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, at Houston Methodist Sugar Land (Texas) Hospital.
Born March 24, 1925, in Paris, he was a son of the late Lee Oliver Taylor and Laura Lockhart Taylor.
His wife, Virginia D. Swor Taylor, died July 6, 2007. They were married on June 2, 1945.
Taylor retired after 19 years in the U.S. Navy and then farmed. He attended Manleyville United Methodist Church.
He was a member of Springville Masonic Lodge 130 and a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason. He was 1982 Tennessee Grand Master of Cryptic Masons, a member of Grand Knights Templar and York Rite Masons, Knight Crusaders of the Cross and Veteran Masonic Association of Tennessee. He also was a member of Al Chymia Shrine Temple.
He leaves three daughters: Leah Camille Taylor of Springville, Rhonda T. (William) Baker of Missouri City, Texas, and Rebecca Jo “Becky” Taylor of Watertown; one son: William R. “Billy” (Kimberly) Taylor of Lexington;
One brother: Everett Taylor of Kentucky; seven grandchildren: Elizabeth “Libby” Martin, Rachel Mathenia, Jeff (Zona) Ash, Adam H. Taylor, Anna Nicole (David) Burns, Sandy Massey and Tiffany Baker; and seven great-grandchildren.
Four sisters and a brother also preceded him in death.
Memorials may be made to Shriner’s Hospital, 1900 Richmond Road, Lexington, KY 40502.
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