TAYLOR, Lucile Vandevort 1909 - 1994

TAYLOR, VANDEVORT, SHIPMAN, FAIRES, KING, PETERSON, FISHER

Posted By: Richard K. Thompson (email)
Date: 5/11/2011 at 16:12:44

Fairfield Ledger
Friday September 9, 1994

Lucile V. TAYLOR

The service for Lucile V. TAYLOR, 85, 304 S. Main St., who died at 9:18 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, 1994, at Jefferson County Hospital, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Kenneth Royar officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Open visitation begins Saturday morning at Raymond Funeral Home. A memorial has been established to First United Methodist Church.

Mrs. TAYLOR was born Aug. 21, 1909, in Wapello, the daughter of Arthur and Anna SHIPMAN VANDEVORT. She grew up in Wapello, attended Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant and Fort Madison Business College. On July 29, 1939, she married Benjamin J. TAYLOR at First Methodist Church in Des Moines. The lived their entire married life in Fairfield. She was an active member of First United Methodist Church and many of the church groups and committees. She was a member of Chapter C, PEO; Wit and Wisdom; Jefferson County Genealogy Society; Prairie Quilters; Bonnifield Chapter of Questers; the Harper Foundation Board; a member and past president of Fairfield Women's Club, and was active in restoration of McElhinny House. She had served as a member of the low-rent housing board at its beginning and served on the Logan Apartment Board for many years.

Surviving are her husband; four sisters, Frances FAIRES of Kankakee, Ill., Harriett FISHER of Spencer, Dorothy KING of Fond du Lac, Wis., and Roena PETERSON of Des Moines. An infant brother preceded her in death.

* Transcribed for genealogy purposes. I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Buried in the TAYLOR family plot at Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, Iowa. 3rd.056.