Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Thursday, August 16, 1951

Mrs. H. M. Taylor Dies; Rites Set Today

Funeral services will be held today for Mrs. H. M. Taylor, 53, of 4059 Prescott lane, who died at the Baton Rouge General hospital at 12:05 a.m. yesterday following a two-week illness.

Services will be held at Hollabaugh-Seale funeral home at 9:30 p.m. and will be followed by religious rites at 10 a.m. at the North Highlands Baptist church. Burial will be in the Roselawn Memorial park.

Pallbearers are S. S. Day, S. S. Dawson, Glen Baker, Sibley Thompson, Johnnie Frost and George Banister.

A native of Silver Creek, Miss., Mrs. Taylor had lived in Baton Rouge for 30 years. She was a Baptist.

Surviving are her husband, H. M. Taylor; three sons, Herman, Robert and Charles, all of Baton Rouge; one daughter, Mrs. G. P. Blanchard of Baton Rouge; her mother, Mrs. Laura Byrnes of Houston, Tex.; three sisters, Mrs. W. E. Neely of Houston, Mrs. Jesse Finley of Laurel, Miss., and Mrs. J. E. Allam of Houston; three brothers, J. E. Byrnes of Freeport, Tex., R. O. Byrnes of New Orleans and C. P. Byrnes of Jennings, and two grandchildren.