Dr. Bill Taylor 1928 - 2004

TAYLOR, HEIMANN

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Mapleton Press
13 May 2004

Hold services in March for Mapleton 1945 graduate

Dr Bill Taylor, age 75, long-time business professor and administrator at Chadron State College died Thursday, March 25, 2004 at Crestview Care Center in Chadron, Nebraska, following a short illness.

Services were held Saturday, March 27, 2004 at St Patrick's Catholic Church in Chadron with the Rev Edward Cortney officiating.

Dr Taylor was born November 11, 1928 to Jasper and Hazel Taylor at Mapleton, Iowa. He grew up on a farm and attended a one-room country school through the eighth grade. He graduated from Mapleton High School in 1945.

After high school, he worked on farms and in construction before serving in the U. S. Marine Corps 1951- 54. He then attended Wayne State College, graduating in 1957. He spent the next two years in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Omaha as an executive trainee with a large insurance company. After his father died, he operated the family farm for two years, worked in a bank one year and taught in high schools at Osceola and Manning, Iowa, each for one year.

On Easter Sunday 1964, he was involved in a serious automobile accident. After a long recovery, he returned to Wayne State to earn a master's degree. While hospitalized, he had fallen in love with one of the nurses, Angela Heimann, a native of West Point, Nebraska. He graduated from Wayne State on August 5, 1965. The couple was married two days later and they soon moved to Chadron, where he began teaching in the business department at the college in September.

Shortly after receiving his doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1970, he became chairman of the Division of Applied Arts at CSC. The next year when the college reorganized, he was appointed dean of the School of Social Science and Business.

During his last 18 years at CSC, Dr Taylor headed the college's outreach efforts. His responsibilities included all of the college's off-campus, alternate learning and directed independent study programs. Dr Taylor was president of the Nebraska State Business Education Association in 1976-77. In 1994, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Adult and Continuing Education Association of Nebraska. After retiring he taught for Western Nebraska Community College and worked diligently in the GED program.

For many years, the Taylors were leaders in western Nebraska in Marriage Encounter groups. Mrs. Taylor, who was head of Chadron's home health program, died June 10, 1997.

Survivors include a daughter, Lisa of Seattle, Washington, a son, Tery of Chadron, a sister, Mary Janicke of Bowie, Maryland and numerous nieces and nephews.