| Thelma Maysel Taylor, 98, of Minnora, died March 11, 2004 in
Morgantown following an extended illness.
Born in Clay County, the Oak Ridge Community, she was the daughter of
the late Lewis Columbus and Londia Foreman. She was a member of
the Minnora United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Taylor spent much of her life as a practical nurse in private homes
in the Charleston area. During World War II she worked at he Naval
Aviontics defense Plant at Institute WV to finance her studies to be a
Practical Nurse.
Shortly after WW II she purchased a dairy farm at Sutton. In the late
1940s she sold the farm and moved to Charleston to once again take up
nursing. She went into the construction business with her son Bob
Taylor. In 1970 she retired from nursing to attend to her aging mother
and father.
Surviving, sons, Bernard E. Taylor and his wife Kathryn of Morgantown
and Joe Taylor and his wife Penny of Minnora; a daughter-in-law Janice
Frame Taylor of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Also surviving, sisters, Emma Silmon of Ripley. Judia E. Slater of
Orlando, Florida and Maxine Sigmon of Charleston; 16 grandchildren and
26 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband Cecil M. Taylor and two sons,
Robert and James.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Stump Funeral Home
in Arnoldsburg. Rev. Tim Hickman will officiate. Interment will be in the
Foreman Family Cemetery at Oak Hill Ridge, Procious.
Visitation Sunday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the funeral home.
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