ETHEL SMITH TAYLOR

SMITH, TAYLOR, MONTEGNA, MCPHILLIPS

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 4/17/2008 at 18:36:46

Casper Star-Tribune

Ethel Taylor dies at 104

SUNDANCE—Services for Ethel Taylor, 104, will b held Monday at 10 a.m.
at the First Presbyterian church in Moorcroft. Interment will follow at
the Moorcroft Cemetery.

Visitation will be 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Fidler-Roberts Funeral chapel
in Sundance.

She died Aug. 26. 1998, at the Crook county Nursing Home in Sundance.

She was born Aug. 20, 1894 in Chariton, Iowa, to Josiah A. and Eliza fox
Smith. She was the middle of nine children.

She resided in Red Oaks, Iowa, until 1922, when she moved to Wyoming.

She married J. Eil Taylor of Moorcroft on Nov. 22, 1922 in Hot Springs. SD.

After their marriage, they engaged in ranching on his homestead in the
Arch Creek area east of Moorcroft for a number of years. They had five
children.

They moved to Moorcroft in 1939 and operated the Skelley Station. After
his death in 1949, she operated the station with her son until 1954.

She moved to Sheridan and worked at the Sheridan Girls School until her
retirement in 1959.

After her retirement, she traveled to California, Washington, iowa and
Wyoming helping whichever relative needed her help at the time.

She kept a home in Moorcroft and lived there off and on until December,
1988, when she entered the nursing home in Sundance.

She is survived by one son, John, of Lamar, Mo.; 10 grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband; one son, James Taylor, three
daughters, Marjorie Taylor as a young girl, Doris Montegna and Ruth
McPhillips; one grandson, one great-granddaughter and all eight of her
brothers and sisters.

Arrangements are with Fidler-Roberts Funeral chapel.

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