Taylor, Wallace Arthur (1926-2014)

TAYLOR, DAUGHTERY, MORRIS, MARSHALL, PALASCHAK, LEONARD, VATNE, MILLER, DRZYCIMSKI, GRIFFITH, SIEGERSMA

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 11/2/2014 at 00:05:15

Wallace Arthur Taylor
January 22, 1926 - October 18, 2014

Wallace Arthur Taylor was born on January 22, 1926, to Arthur and Lillie (Daughtery) Taylor in Dickens, Iowa. He attended Logan Country School and graduated from Gillett Grove High School. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Navy, serving on the Markab A D21, a destroyer tender. In December of 1945, he witnessed the devastation in Nagasaki, Japan, from the platform of a railcar. While on the Whangpoo River in the Port of Shanghai, China, he had many days of liberty. At the end of his service, he returned to the Bradshaw Place in Iowa to farm with his father.

At a dance at the Roof Garden in Arnolds Park, Wallace met his “Twinkle Blue”, Phyllis Marie Morris. After eloping on January 31, 1949, they lived in the Reading area in Minnesota. In 1950, they moved to Storm Lake, Iowa, where Wallace worked for the Hygrade meat packing plant for thirty years. A fervent union man, he served as a chief steward and contract negotiator. In 1964, he and Phyllis purchased an acreage near Newell and Varina, Iowa.

After Wallace retired in 1980, he kept working at a packing plant in Boulder, Colorado. After he returned to Newell, he worked at The Green Thumb and the Hog Buying Station. He and Phyllis, then, attended Iowa Lakes Community College in Emmetsburg. After graduating, they worked with special needs adults in Sac City, Mt. Ayer, and Decorah, Iowa. Lastly, Wallace worked as a security guard at hotels and courthouses in the Twin Cities area.

A man of deep faith, Wallace enjoyed attending the Baptist Church, studying his Bible, and discussing religion with family and friends.

Wallace went home to God on Saturday, October 18, 2014, in his 88th year while in hospice care at the Aase Haugen Care Center in Decorah, Iowa. Surrounded by family at the time of his passing, he is survived by his wife, “Twinkle Blue” Phyllis; his sons: Richard (Bonnie) Taylor, of Sac City, Iowa, Allen (Marilee) Taylor, of Decorah, Iowa, and David (Andrea) Taylor, of Newell, Iowa; his daughter, Susan (John) Marshall, of Bloomington, Minnesota; his grandchildren: Nicole (Brandon) Brevig; Benjamin (Rebecca), Thomas (Rose), and Shane Marshall; Sarah (Thomas) Ptack; Adam (Amber), Bryon (Julie), Chad (Jenn Bovero), Christopher (Shirlee), Jason (Angela), Jeremy, and Michelle Wilson Taylor; and Ann (Brian) Wise; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren; his sisters: Alpharetta Palaschak, of Adrian, Minnesota, Colleen Leonard, of Lancaster, Ohio, and Jacquelleen (Bruce) Vatne, of Mendota Heights, Minnesota; his brother, Arthur Roger (Susan) Taylor, of Brook Park, Minnesota; his brother-in-law, Richard (Shirley) Morris, of Spirit Lake, Iowa; and his sister-in-law, Betty Miller, of Ilion, New York; as well as by an extended generational family of nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Those who preceded him in death include his parents, Arthur and Lillie Taylor; his brothers: Charles, Richard, and Kevin Taylor; his sisters: Wanda, and her husband, Kenneth Drzycimski, Hazel, and her husband, James Griffith, and Florence, and her husband, Loren Siegersma; his brothers-in-law: Fred Palaschak and Lonnie Leonard; his parents-in-law, Roy and Marie (Donaldson) Morris; his brother-in-law, Paul Miller; his beloved grandson, Nathan Taylor; and his step-mother, Estella Graham Taylor. May they all rest in peace and see the face of God.

His smile and joy of life will be deeply missed as well as his ability to see the beauty of God in all of us.

We will gather for a Celebration of Wallace’s Life on November 1, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. at the Fratzke and Jensen Funeral Home, 1615 West Milwaukee Avenue, Storm Lake, Iowa, 50588. A visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. A luncheon will follow. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Aase Haugen Care Center, 4 Ohio Street, Decorah, Iowa 52101, the Storm Lake Baptist Church, or to the St. Croix Hospice, 951 N Linn Avenue, New Hampton, Iowa 50659. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements.

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