Juanita Cooke Taylor, 88 of Vero Beach, died peacefully in her sleep at her family home on November 21, 2014. Juanita was born on October 15, 1926 in the Kinsey community near Dothan, Alabama. She attended local schools and graduated as Miss Houston County High School and Salutatorian in 1945, then graduated from Campbell Business College in 1946. She married her high school sweetheart, Harvey Taylor, in 1947.
After giving birth to her first child in 1951, the young family moved to Florida and settled in Vero Beach in 1958. She remained a resident of Vero Beach until her death with a summer residence near Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Juanita worked as a homemaker and mother until her youngest child entered elementary school in 1969 when she began working as a part-time bookkeeper for several businesses in Vero Beach. She worked for numerous years for the Indian River County Planning and Zoning Department where she retired in 1986 in order to care for her invalid mother.
Juanita was a devout Christian and spent many years as an active member of the First Baptist Church of Vero Beach where she taught Sunday School and was a leader of the Girl’s Auxilary and the Women’s Missionary Union. In her later years, she and her husband became active members of King’s Baptist Church in Vero Beach and Laurel Fork Baptist Church in Boone, North Carolina.
Mrs. Taylor is survived by her loving husband of 67 years, Harvey Taylor; two sons, Ed Taylor of Vero Beach and David (Pilar) Taylor of Boca Raton and daughter ElaineTaylor of Decatur, Georgia; two grandchildren, Julia Taylor Green of Atlanta, Georgia and Andrew Taylor of Boca Raton. She is also survived by her niece, Sandra Sue Thomas of Climax, Georgia. She was predeceased by her parents, George Grady Cooke and Esther Hollis Cooke; her brothers Bernard Cooke and Ralph Cooke; her nephew Jeff Cooke and her daughter-in-law Linda Taylor.
Family visitation and a memorial service will be held at King’s Baptist Church on Monday, November 24 with visitation beginning at 4:00 PM and the service commencing at 5:00.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations be made to the King’s Baptist Church Building Fund, 3235 58th Avenue, Vero Beach, FL 32966 in Juanita Taylor’s name.
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