YAZOO CITY — Services for Jean Edens Taylor, 83, who died Thursday, April 16, 2009, at Promise Hospital in Ferriday, will be at 2 p.m. today at Trinity Episcopal Church.
Burial will follow at Glenwood Cemetery under the direction of Stricklin-King Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time today at the church.
Jean and her husband, John, married in October of 1945, after having met during World War II. They then made their home in Yazoo City where her husband, was a native. She was a homemaker.
She was an active member in Trinity Episcopal Church, giving of her time and talents in decorating the church on so many occasions. She was a member of the Yazoo City Junior Auxiliary and the Yazoo Country Club Woman’s Golf Association. It was here where she enjoyed a number of friends and gave unselfishly of her time to the creativity and success of these organizations. Jean was highly known for her skill in cooking, which she so enjoyed. She was a respected caterer in the Delta of Mississippi after her husband died too soon in 1974. She devoted her love and time to her husband and so loved and cared for her three children, opening her home to all of their friends. Jean had a way of making everything she did a little bit special and unique in her own way.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John Edward Taylor Sr.
Survivors include two son, John E. Taylor Jr. and wife, Kay, of Natchez and Albion “Abby” Edens Taylor and wife, Dawn, of Fairhope, Ala.; one daughter, Eden Taylor Lacoste of Germantown, Tenn.; seven grandchildren, Presley Taylor, Hunter Taylor, Pepper Taylor, Dallas Taylor, Abby Carroll Taylor, Emily Lacoste and Anna Lacoste; and one sister-in-law, Carrie L. Taylor of Yazoo City.
Memorials may be sent to Trinity Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 145, Yazoo City, MS 39194.