Orville Glenn Taylor (1899-1977)

TAYLOR, WILLIAMS, DAHNKE, CLIFTON, IRVIN, ANDERSON, HOPKINS, HOCHHAUS

Posted By: jane austin (email)
Date: 3/22/2022 at 23:37:53

Last Rites for Orville Taylor March 5

Orville Taylor, 77, of Hartley, died Wednesday [March 2] at a Hartley hospital following a brief illness.

Services were held at 2 pm [Saturday]March 5 in Saint Paul Lutheran Church with the Rev. Francis Mennenga officiating, Burial was in Pleasant View Cemetery under direction of the Baumgarten Funeral Home.

Orville Glenn Taylor, the son of George McClellan Taylor and Nancy Annie Williams Taylor, was born November 30, 1899, at Linden, Missouri. He came to Iowa at a very early age with his parents in a covered wagon. They settled near Sloan, later moving to a farm near his childhood home.

He was united in marriage at Sioux City, Iowa, to Mearl Dahnke on December 29, 1920. They farmed in O'Brien County for fifty years, moving into Hartley in 1970. He was a member of Saint Paul's Lutheran Church of Hartley, having been baptized and confirmed in 1923.

Preceding him in death were his parents, two brothers, and two sisters. Left to cherish his memory are his wife, three sons and their wives, Quentin and Luella, Lynford and Marjorie, and Gaylord and Joan, all of Hartley, eleven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, five sisters: Mrs. Cleta Clifton of Sana Ana, California, Mrs. Esther Irvin of Spokane Washington, Mrs. Abel (Leola) Anderson of Hartley, Mrs. Murvin (Marie) Hopkins of Sanborn, and Mrs. Raymond (Gretchen) Hochhaus of Strawberry Point, Iowa; three brothers, Herman of Minneapolis, Claude of Big Sandy, Texas and Hershel of Hartley as well as many other relatives and friends.

Hartley (Iowa) Sentinel) 10 Mar 1977, p4

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