He was a member of Spring Hill Baptist Church. He was the owner of Taylor’s Meat Processing. He retired from Ryder PIE and was a member of Local 519 Teamster Union. He and his wife Shirley were members of the Smoky Mountain Model A Club and Seymour Air Park.
Preceding in death are his parents Sherman Richard and Jeanette Sisk Taylor and brothers-in-law Ray Ousley and Gary Fraker.
Those he leaves behind to cherish his memories are Shirley Chambers Taylor, his wife of 66 years, of Lenoir City, sister Gerri Ousley of Morristown and her daughter Dana, brother-in-law Joe Chambers of Knoxville and his children David and Connie, sister-in-law Martha Fraker of Sharpsburg, GA and her children Angela, Pamela and Chris, special friends Ronnie Greene, Gene and Brenda Cline, Dewey and Linda Caldwell, Kevin and Tammie Clendenen, and several great nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends at Berry Highland South on Wednesday, October 28 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm, with a Celebration of Life Funeral Service at 2:00pm officiated by Rev. Dewey Caldwell and interment immediately following in the Garden of the Four Gospels. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Spring Hill Baptist Church.
To watch the Celebration of Life Funeral Service live please click on the link: https://Berry-Highland-South.livecontrol.tv/8145ad7d
