CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Paul Edward Taylor, 4 Apr 2005
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Paul Edward Taylor, 76, formerly of S. Main Street, Elizabethton, died Monday,
April 4, 2005, at Hospice of Metro Denver Care Center, Aurora, Colo., after an
extended illness.

Mr. Taylor was a native of Carter County and a son of the late George W. and
Mary Roberts Taylor. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by
three brothers and two sisters.

Mr. Taylor had lived in Colorado for the past two years. He was a retired auto
mechanic and a member of First Free Will Baptist Church of Elizabethton. He
was a member and Past Master of Dashiell Masonic Lodge #238 and a member of
Jericho Shrine Temple, Kingsport. Mr. Taylor had served in the United States
Air Force. He was an avid golfer.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Evelyn Campbell Taylor; two daughters and
sons-in-law, Deborah Paulette and Paul Johnson, Aurora, Colo., and Mitzi and
Keith Phillips, Elizabethton; five grandchildren, Curtis, Christie, Rachel,
Matthew and Dustin; and a great-grandson, Connor. Several nieces and nephews
also survive.

Funeral services for Mr. Taylor will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 7,
at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Phil Poston officiating. Music will
be provided by Cathy Curtis, soloist. 

Graveside services and interment will be at 10 a.m. Friday, April 8, at
Mountain Home National Cemetery. Active pallbearers, who are requested to
assemble at the funeral chapel at 9:15 a.m. Friday, will be Norman Taylor, Sam
Bradshaw, Jim Bishop, Mike Peters, Bobby Campbell, Spencer "Bo" Campbell, Paul
Campbell and Harold Bill Campbell. Honorary pallbearers will be Dwight
Richards, Packy Fair, Floyd Nave, F.D. Elliott, Ken Wickware, James Estep,
John R. Campbell, Larry Burrow, Mac Merritt, Johnny Fields and Harry Moore.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral
chapel. Friends may also call at the residence of a daughter and son-in-law,
Mitzi and Keith Phillips, 412 S. Main Street, Elizabethton. To those who
prefer, memorials may be made in memory of Mr. Taylor to the Building Fund of
First Free Will Baptist Church. Family and friends will assemble at the
funeral chapel at 9:15 a.m. Friday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the
Taylor family may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net.

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