Juanita Louise Taylor, long time resident of Treasure Island and the past five years dividing her time between her new residence at 146 Castle Breeze Drive and nearby Windsor Nursing Home at 1219 Eastwood Dr., died early Saturday morning, October 16, 2010. She had been a patient at Windsor suffering from heart problems for the past several months. She was 82 years old. She is survived by her husband of more than 45 years, John Clifton Taylor, former publisher of the Seguin Gazette. Juanita is also survived by three stepdaughters: Beth Taylor of Bastrop, Texas, Kay Taylor of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Lisa Taylor Weinstein of Hunt, Texas; by a cousin, Deborah Roberts of San Antonio, Texas and by several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Juanita had been a founder, a leader and a very active member for years of several organizations including, but not limited to, the Seguin Conservation Society, the Nogales Garden Club, the San Antonio Professional Tour Guide Association, the American Business Women’s Association, the Seguin Area Chamber of Commerce and the Red Hats Society. Juanita had worked with the Convention and Visitors Bureau Committee for many years. She volunteered and had carried numerous leaders to promote Seguin throughout Texas. She had been the first recipient of the Chamber’s Tourism Partner of the Year Award. Juanita and her husband, John, were associated with the Miss South Texas Pageants in the 1980’s. She was also the owner of the Around South Texas Tours for over 25 years. As an example of her community leadership, she was the presenter of the opening program before a jammed packed house for the Seguin Coliseum in 1977. This opening night event attracted the first of countless overflows of attendance to the still extremely popular Coliseum. Her husband’s newspaper, The Seguin Gazette, was awarded the first of five annual statewide South Texas Chamber of Commerce’s “Outstanding Community Service awards”. Four of these awards were later presented by the South Texas Chamber to the Gazette for its leadership, major contributions and help in returning and reestablishing the remains of Juan Seguin on the hillside adjacent to the Coliseum, and writing Seguin’s history for permanent display at the site where the city was named, also producing the city’s history and background displayed on the Juan Seguin statue at downtown city park. The final such project and assistance by Juanita was her helping establish the start of the new Seguin hospital. That effort was also selected as that year’s particular number one community project by the South Texas Chamber. Juanita, prior to her marriage to John, was a Field Training Supervisor for the national Tele-Trip Co. in Washington DC. There were three such supervisors for the company, and Juanita’s work covered the company’s division from San Antonio to Washington DC. Juanita was born in Hot Springs Arkansas and educated in Detroit, Michigan. She came to San Antonio when her father was transferred there by his company. A visitation will be held on Tuesday, October 19th from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. at Goetz Memorial Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 20th at Goetz Memorial Chapel with interment following at Thompsonville Cemetery (near Waelder) at 4p.m. The Taylor family and the relatives have been buried there commencing almost a century ago.
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