Submitted by: Dan Rich

Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Wilson L. Taylor

Oct. 8, 1902 - Nov. 24, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 11/25/1994

SOUTH BEND - Wilson L. Taylor, 92, of Brookville (Ind.) Health Care Center, formerly of 2006 Mishawaka Ave., died at 7:55 p.m. Wednesday in the health care center. Mr. Taylor retired in 1969 from Operating Engineers Midwest Local, South Bend, after 20 years of service. He was born Oct. 8, 1902, in Stewart County, Tenn., and lived in South Bend since 1934, moving to Brookville five years ago.

 

On Nov. 11, 1933, in Chicago, he married Rose L. Thornburg. She died Nov. 17, 1988. He is survived by three sons, Charles R. of Brookville, Wilson R. of Dayton, Ohio, and Robert L. of Denton, Texas; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and a brother, O.G. of Crossville, Tenn. He was a member of Gospel Center Missionary Church.

 

Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Hollis-Orvis-Palmer Funeral Home. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Walkerton. Friends may call two hours before services on Saturday in the funeral home.