Mr. Eugene "Shorty" Taylor

Glover Funeral Home of Clayton

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Posted by: Glover Funeral Home
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334-775-3403
Date: Nov 27 2021 9:45 AM

Mr. Eugene “Shorty” Taylor, age 98, a resident of Louisville, passed away peacefully in his sleep Thursday, November 25, 2021, at Crowne Health Care in Eufaula, Alabama.

 

Funeral services will be held Sunday, November 28, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. at Mt Zion Baptist Church in Louisville with Reverend Curtis Rich officiating.  Burial will follow in the church cemetery with Glover Funeral Home of Clayton directing. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.

 

Shorty was born November 20, 1923, in Barbour County, Alabama, the son of James Richard Taylor and Ila Belle Cook Taylor. He was an outgoing man who loved people. Shorty drove a school bus for Barbour County Board of Education for 35 years.  He enjoyed farming, buying, selling, and tinkering on used cars. Mr. Taylor was the oldest member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

 

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Mary Clyde Baker Taylor; sister, Mary Frances Taylor Phillips; brother, Merrill Taylor; two nieces, Faye Beaty and Amaryllis Jones.

 

Survivors include daughter, Charlotte Taylor, Louisville, sister, Lucy Moore, Union Springs; three nephews, Jimmy Phillips (Sylvia), Billy Taylor (Shirley), Jerry Taylor (Mary), and two nieces, Patsy Hinson (Earl), and Sharon Rodatz (Bill).

 

Flowers will be accepted, or donations made in honor of Mr. Taylor to First Choice Hospice-   

966 North Claxton Avenue Elba, Alabama, 36323.

 

 Asked to serve as pallbearers are: Billy Taylor, Jerry Taylor, Richard Taylor, Jimmy Taylor, Tommy Westbrook, and Jeffery Dykes.

 

Glover Funeral Home of Clayton was entrusted with the arrangements. (334) 775-3403. Please sign the guestbook online at www.gloverfuneral.com

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