THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: MONDAY, June 20, 1994 TAG: 9406200012 SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: FINAL SOURCE: RALEIGH, N.C. DATELINE: 940620 LENGTH: Short
A native of Harrellsville, he was the son of the late Mervin R. Taylor and Lillie L. Harrell Taylor. Mr. Taylor attended Wake Forest College. A chemist by profession, he began his career as a sanitarian with the Hertford County Health Department. He later worked with the Bladen County Health Department and with the Catawba-Lincoln-Alexander Health Department.
{REST} Mr. Taylor moved to Raleigh in 1957 to work with the North Carolina State Stream Sanitation Commission. He retired in 1976 from the N.C. Department of Water Resources.
Mr. Taylor had long been an active member and Sunday School teacher both at First Baptist Church in Newton and at Forest Hills Baptist Church in Raleigh.
A graveside service was held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Raleigh Memorial Park.
Surviving: wife, Blanche Fairless Taylor; sons, Julian R. Taylor of Ahoskie, Joseph C. Taylor of Raleigh and James E. Taylor of Raleigh; sisters, Mrs. Gene T. Bender of Norfolk and Mrs. Dorothy T. Fallows of Richmond and Mrs. Elsie T. Lock of Palm Bay, Fla. and Mrs. Mary Louise Clement of Valdosta, Ga.; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation, Suite 208, 400 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, N.C. 27605.
Arrangements by Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 300 St. Mary's St.
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