Genevieve C., Taylor 1884-1989

TAYLOR, AMES, DRAPER

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Date: 2/4/2013 at 20:22:05

Sioux City Journal
5 April 1989

Former resident, 105, dies in Ponca

Genevieve C., Taylor, 105, formerly of Sioux City, died Monday, April 3, 1989, in Elms Health Care Center at Ponca, Neb.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Trinity Lutheran Church in Sioux City with the Revs.
Frederick C. Lubs and Joan A. Mau officiating.

Burial will be in Floyd Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-9 p.m. today with a prayer service at 7 p.m. in Nelson Berger Northside Chapel.

Mrs. Taylor, the former Genevieve Charlotte Draper was born Feb. 6, 1884, in Sioux City, daughter of Frank and Alvira (Ames) Draper. She married Rhodes Jefferson Taylor in January 1905 in Sioux City. The couple founded, edited and published several newspapers in the Siouxland area including Whiting and Paullina in Iowa, Parker in Colorado and Allen, Emerson, Winnebago, Tekamah and Homer, all in Nebraska.

Mr. Taylor died in May 1938 at Allen, Neb. When she returned to Sioux City she was employed as a bookkeeper and accountant for Younker-Davidson Department Store until her retirement at age 75.

She moved to Ponca in September 1986.

Mrs. Taylor was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and KVB Circle of the church. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Azure Chapter 540 Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors include four sons, Gaylord of Ponca, Neb., Jerry of Chula Vista, Calif., Robert of El Monte, Calif., and Charles of Sioux City; two daughters, Mrs. Marty and Mrs. Herman (Harriette) Rehwoldt both of Canby, Ore.; a brother, Charles Draper of Avon Lake, Ohio; 26 grandchildren and more than 100 great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Earl and Richard and a daughter, Ruth.

A memorial has been established in her name with Trinity Lutheran Church.