THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, January 12, 1996 TAG: 9601120527
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: BOSTON LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
Maureen Taylor, former women's editor for the old Norfolk Ledger-Star, and more recently a copy editor at The Boston Globe, died recently of natural causes at her South Boston home.
Born in Malone, N.Y., where her father was county sheriff, she attended schools there before moving to New York to attend City College.
She began her journalism career as a reporter at the Malone Evening Telegram. She then operated a two-county bureau for The Buffalo Courier Express.
After returning to Malone to work for the Telegram and Malone radio station WICY, she moved to Syracuse as food writer and later as fashion editor for The Syracuse Herald Journal.
During her seven-year tenure at The Ledger-Star in the 1960s, her department won many journalism awards. One was for a series dealing with alcoholism among women.
She moved to Boston in 1968 after accepting a job covering news and entertainment at The Boston Record-American and Sunday Advertiser. She joined The Globe in 1978. by CNB