This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#265955) Lucile V. Taylor <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=265955> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 2/13/2010 at 00:17:20 Surnames: TAYLOR,SHIPMAN,VANDEVORT,FAIRES,FISHER,KING,PETERSON LUCILE V. TAYLOR Funeral services for Lucile V. Taylor, 85, 304 S. Main, Fairfield, were held at 10:30 a.m., Monday, September 12, at the First United Methodist Church in Fairfield with Rev. Kenneth Royar officiating. Mrs. Taylor died at 9:18 Thursday, September 8 at Jefferson County Hospital. Mrs. Taylor was born August 21, 1909, at Wapello, the daughter of Arthur and Anna Shipman Vandevort. She grew up in Wapello, attended Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant and Fort Madison Business College. On July 29, 1939, she married Benjamin J. Taylor at First Methodist Church in Des Moines. They lived their entire married life in Fairfield. She was an active member of the First Methodist Church and many of the church groups and committees. She was a member of Chapter C, PEO; Wit and Wisdom; Jefferson County Genealogical Society; Prairie Quilters; Bonnifield Chapter of Questers; the Harper Foundation Board; a member and past president of Fairfield Women’s Club, and was active in restoration of McElhinney House. She had served as a member of the low-rent housing board at its beginning and served on the Logan Apartment Board for many years. Surviving are her husband; four sisters, Frances Faires of Kankakee, Illinois, Harriet Fisher of Spencer, Dorothy King of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and Roena Peterson of Des Moines. An infant brother preceded her in death. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of September 8, 1994