Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Taliaferro, William Lyons October 3, 1978
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Virginian Pilot October 4, 1978

                  Dr. Taliaferro, Practitioner Of Norfolk

Dr. William L. Taliaferro, 66, of 725 Maury Ave., general practitioner in 
Norfolk for four decades, died Tuesday in a hospital.
Dr. Taliaferro, a native of Hampton, was the husband of Mrs. Kathleen Doyle 
Taliaferro. He lived in Norfolk 40 years. He closed his offices on Graydon 
Avenue last year because of illness. However, he found time after retirement for 
limited practice at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hampton and a the 
U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Norfolk. 
He was a graduate of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, and 
graduated with a medical degree from the University of Virginia Medical School.
During World War II he was a major in the 51st Medical Battalion in the Italian 
and North Africa campaigns, 1941 to 1945.
He was on the staff of the Diagnostic Tumor Clinic of De Paul and Leigh Memorial 
hospitals and was a former president of the staff of Norfolk General Hospital. 
He was a member of the Norfolk County Medical Society, the National Academy of 
General Practice and the Raven Society.
He also was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Besides his widow, survivors include three daughters, Misses Mary Ann Taliaferro 
and Nina Taliaferro of Norfolk and Mrs. Martha Taliaferro Thrasher of 
Cincinnati, Ohio; a son, William L. Taliaferro Jr. of Norfolk; and a sister, 
Mrs. Isham Trotter Hardy of Hampton.
The body was taken to H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments. A funeral will be held 
Thursday at noon in St. Paul's Episcopal Church by the Rev. Walton W. Davis, 
pastor and the Rev. Thomas Quinlan of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
The family, which will be at his home, has asked that flowers be omitted and 
memorial donations made to the Salvation Army or to  a charity of choice.
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TALIAFERRO, M.D., WILLIAM L. - ln a Norfolk hospital, Tuesday, WILLIAM 
L.TALIAFERRO, M.D., husband of Mrs. Kathleen Doyle Taliaferro, and son of the 
late William Churchhill Lyons and Mrs. Mabel Simkins Sclater Taliaferro, in the 
66th year of his age. A funeral service will be held in St. Paul’s Episcopal 
Church, Thursday at 12 Noon. Burial, St. Mary’s Cemetery. H. D. Oliver Funeral 
Apts., Norfolk, has charge. The family will be at 725 Maury Avenue, Norfolk and 
they have asked that flowers be omitted and memorial donations be made to 
Salvation Army or Charity of Choice.

Virginian-Pilot October 5, 1978


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