2006

Obituaries published in the

Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006

edition of The Natchez

Democrat

Dorothy M.

Wilson

NEW ORLEANS-Services for

Dorothy M. Wilson, 78, of New

Orleans, who died Thursday,

Jan. 17, 2006, at Baton Rouge

General Hospital, are incomplete

at this time and will be later

announced by Webb Funeral

Home.

Adolph

Gaylor

Life’s race well run: Life’s work

well done: Life’s contempts

relevantly endured, and now

willingly, come to rest.

NATCHEZ – Services for

Adolph Gaylor of Natchez, who

died Thursday, January 19,

2006, in Jackson, will be 11 a.m.

Wednesday at Milford Baptist

Church with the Rev. Eddie

Alsworth officiating.

Burial will be in the Pine Hill

Memorial Cemetery under the

direction of George F. West

Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 9

p.m. Tuesday, with Masonic

services beginning at 7 p.m. and

10 a.m. until service time

Wednesday at the church.

Bro. Gaylor was born March

16, 1924, in Jefferson County, to

the late Samuel O. Gaylor and

Irene Gaylor. He accepted Christ

at an early age and was

baptized by the late Rev. A. M.

Drake and joined the Milford

Missionary Baptist Church in

1938. His membership and

faithful services were unbroken.

He served as a deacon, Sunday

School teacher, choir member,

former church treasurer, and

member of the M.B.P.F.B.

Society. He was a member of

the Milford Brotherhood Club

and the Deacons Progressive

Club. He was also a member of

the Clover Hill Masonic Lodge

#13.

Bro. Gaylor was educated in

the Adams County School

District. He was inducted into the

United States Army in 1944 and

served during World War II. After

being honorably discharged in

1946, he attended Alcorn

College.

Bro. Gaylor was also active in

community, civic, and

governmental organizations as

he was an active member of the

Natchez Business and Civic

League as well as the NAACP.

He was the first African

American appointed to the

Natchez-Adams County Port

Commission in 1976 and served

as the Port Commission’s

secretary for ten years. In 1964,

Bro. Gaylor established Gaylor’s

Auto Repair Service where he

served as a pillar of the business

community for over thirty-five

years.

He was united in holy

matrimony to Jessie Beatrice

Bland and to that union five

children were born. They were

married 58 years.

He was preceded in death by

his wife, Jessie, his daughter,

Patricia A. Gaylor Harvey, his

brothers, Samuel “Bo” Gaylor,

Gerod Gaylor, and his sisters,

Bernice Gaylor and Beatrice G.

Nesbitt.

He is survived by his sons,

Adolph “Don” Gaylor and wife,

Margaret, of Fairfield, Ala., Tylan

O. Gaylor of Byram, Tony R.

Gaylor and wife, Kristena, of

Jackson; daughter, Genoise G.

Washington and husband, Willie,

of Columbia, S. C.; sisters, Edna

Watkins and husband, W.J., of

Memphis, Tenn., Eloise Bennett

and husband, Leonard, of

Cleveland, Ohio, and Doris

Armstrong and husband, James,

of Goodlettsville, Tenn.;

brothers, Walter Gaylor of

Natchez and Lee A. Gaylor and

wife, Vivian, of Bellevue, Wash.;

aunt, Martha Gaylor of Natchez;

eight grandchildren, Malcolm

Harvey and wife, Haygar and

Marques Harvey, all of Atlanta,

Ga., Adrienne D, Gaylor of Silver

Spring, Md., Willie “Torry”

Washington, Gerard Washington

and wife, Cindy, Chad A.

Washington, and Kimberly

Washington, all of Columbia S.

C., and Samuel L. Gaylor of

Jackson; four great

grandchildren; son-in-law, Percy

Lee Harvey; sisters-in-law;

brothers-in-law, and a host of

nieces, nephews, other relatives

and friends who mourn his

death.