Kay County OK Obit for: Paul Ray Taylor
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Submitted to the archives by:Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
Date submitted: 1/25/2003
Transcribed from the: Stillwater News Press 
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Paul Taylor

Paul Ray Taylor, 59, died Thursday, Jan. 2, 2003.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the 1OOF Cemetery in Tonkawa.
Singleton and Sons Funeral Home, Inc., 627 New Orleans Street, Hempstead, Texas 
is directing the arrangements.

He was employed by Mud Check, Inc. as a drilling mud consultant. He was 
considered to be "the mud man's mud man." 

He gave seminars and spoke at many oil and gas shows worldwide. He also 
consulted on some of the deepest wells drilled in the United States.

He was reared in Oklahoma and received his B.S. in education from Northeastern 
Oklahoma State University.

He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Connie Esch Taylor; his mother, Wanda 
Grub of Stillwater; one half- brother, Jim Grubbs and his wife, Pat, and their 
sons; and a half-sister Kathy Hopper and her husband, Van, and their children.
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