Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries: Lela Faye Taylor Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by: Don Raymond The Tri-County News, Gentry County Missouri, Friday, August 20, 2004: Lela Faye (Best) Taylor, 77, Raytown, died Aug. 15, 2004, at Research Medical Center in Kansas City. She was born Oct. 6, 1926 in Gentry County; the daughter of James F. and Leota E. (Neal) Best. She was raised by her uncle and aunt, Ralph and Frances (Best) Lippincott, upon the death of her mother, when Lela was two years old. She was a graduate of King City high school and attended Northwest Mo. State University in Maryville. Mrs. Taylor was a school teacher for several years in Northwest Missouri. She later moved to Kansas City where she met and married Armando Aguilar, with whom she had her children. She worked for many years as a bookkeeper at the former Marion Laboratories, retiring in 1980. She was a member of the Church of God Seventh Day. Later in life she married W. Eugene Taylor of Raytown, who survives at the home. Additional survivors include a daughter, Paula Fiscus and her husband, Richard, of Peculiar; a son, Steven Aguilar and his wife, Debbie, Pembroke Pines, FL.; a sister, Mrs. Neal Carpenter, Raytown; five step-children, Jack Taylor, Lee's Summit; John Taylor, Independence; Debbie Martin, Blue Springs; Robert Taylor, Raytown and W. E. Taylor, Jr., Raytown; five grandchildren; seven step-grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services were held on Aug. 19 at Missouri Funeral Care in Raytown with burial in High Ridge Cemetery in Stanberry.