TAYLOR, Grant Joseph: 1912-1999

TAYLOR, ALBRIGHT, STUTZMAN, LAUGHLIN, YOHO, BEGGS, SELIX, BRADLEY, THOMPSON

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The Fairfield Ledger
Page 10 - Tuesday, October 5, 1999

Grant Joseph Taylor

Grant Joseph Taylor, 87, of Douds died at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, 1999, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Douds with the Rev. John Cooper officiating. Burial will be in Mount Moriah Cemetery north of Douds. Open visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with family present from 7-8:30 p.m. Memorials to Eldon Assembly of God or Douds Community Center may be left at the funeral home or mailed to the family at Route 1, Box 4B, Douds 52551.

Mr. Taylor was born Feb. 28, 1912, in Jefferson County, the son of Patrick Henry and Nora Ellen Albright Taylor. He married Anna Lucille Stutzman April 1, 1939, at the Open Bible parsonage in Mount Pleasant.

He attended Eldon Assembly of God Church, served as a mechanic in the U.S. Army during World War II, was a self-employed mechanic and farmer, and was a member of John Hyson Reneker Post 494 Amercian Legion in Douds.

Mr. Taylor and his wife lived all their married life in Van Buren County, mostly in the Douds community.

Survivors include three daughters, Phyllis Laughlin of Fairfield, Joy Yoho of Birmingham and Marjorie Beggs of Cantril; one son, Marvin Taylor of Eldon; 12 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Florence Mae Selix of Kennewick, Wash., and Elizabeth Bradley of Cedar Rapids.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Mabel Thompson and Alvira Taylor; and five brothers, Floyd, Earl, Ernest, Harry and Purl Taylor.

(Transcribed for genelogical purposes only. I am of no relation.)