Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, December 17, 1948

MRS. MARY TAYLOR

COLUMBIA, La., Dec. 17. (Special) -- Mrs. Mary B. Taylor, 76, of Columbia, died in the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. L. Gregory, Thursday. The funeral was held in Riser Funeral Chapel Friday at 3 p.m. Rev. Cline Ellis, assisted by Rev. Seegars, officiated. Interment was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. She was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. T. G. Shipp, New Mexico; Mrs. J. C. Peterson, Dallas; and Mrs. Gregory of Columbia; two sons, L. A. Taylor, Dallas, and F. M. [sic S. M.] Taylor, Many.

Pallbearers were: Claude Steele, E. E. Franklin, B. Hawkins, Van Watts, E. D. Coates and Ted Howard.