Marshall County, OK - Obit - George Whiting Taliaferro http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/marshall/obituary/t4160006.txt --------------------------------- Copyright © 2000 by Ella Brown ellabbrown@email.msn.com This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. --------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Source: Madill Record 1964 ------------------------------------------------------------------ G. W. Taliaferro Victim of Stroke Madill Record 1964 George Whiting Taliaferro, 61, a native of Madill died early Monday morning in a Sherman, Texas hospital where he had been a patient since Friday evening. Mr. Taliaferro entered the hospital following a severe stroke. He had been critically ill in the past, but not in more recent years. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon from Watts Memorial chapel with the Rev. Clint Purtell, First Methodist church pastor, in charge. Ellen Rowe Phillips was soloist with Mrs. Barbara Purtell the organist. Committal services were conducted in Woodberry Forest cemetery next to Mr. Taliaferro’s grandparents whose family name, Woodberry, was used in naming the cemetery. Mr. Taliaferro was born in Madill March 23, 1903. He attended elementary school here and was graduated from Sherman High school in 1922. He then attended Austin college in Sherman and Texas A &M. A rancher-stockman and oil man all his adult life; Mr. Taliaferro became a member of the Methodist church here when he was seven years old in 1910. He made his home with a brother, B.N. Taliaferro, at 707 W. Taliaferro. In addition to the brother, two sisters survive him, Mrs. Lorene Reirdon of Durant and Mrs. Mary Byrd French of Madill and several nieces and nephews. Casket escorts were Roy Lockhart, Frank Landram, Maurice Lampe, Herman Turbyfill, Marvin Neff, Buddy Whiting, Bill Bond and Jim Davis. Virgie White’s column Madill Record 1964 Every time we walk around the streets of Madill we keep thinking we will see our old friends around the corner, but yet we know we won’t. Some passed away long ago, some recently, but their good deeds will live on forever. There’s Rabbit Dillingham, John Taliaferro, Big Don Welch, Fred Blalock, Marvin Bryant, Joe Hannan, Rube Moren, Bill Perryman and George Whiting Taliaferro. Some folks never met a man they didn’t like. No man ever met George Taliaferro without admiring his Christian like attitude. George never in his life ever said an unkind work about any human being. He was seriously ill several years, but never complained about anything. If he was standing among folks and one said a harsh word about another, George would turn, and walk away, get into his car and drive out in the country where he found comfort in the silence of the great outdoors. He made friends wherever he went. The happiest day of his life was when his sister, Mary Byrd French, and her husband, Allen named their son George. He said, “That’s my first namesake.” submitted by Ella Byrd Reirdon Brown