BORN: December 23, 1923
DIED: January 14, 2018
LOCATION: Columbia, Tennessee

Elsie Marie Taylor Price, 94, died Sunday, January 14, 2018 at her residence on South Main Street in Columbia.

Funeral services will be conducted at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Rev. Steve Swango officiating. Burial will follow in Polk Memorial Gardens with military honors provided by Herbert Griffin American Legion Post 19.

Born December 23, 1923 in McLean County, Illinois, the sixth of fifteen children, she was the daughter of the late John Herbert Taylor and the late Mary Helen Coup Taylor. After graduating high school in Bloomington, Illinois, she joined the Navy Waves in 1944 along with her brother, George Wesley Taylor who died on D-Day. As was tradition, there were Five Blue Stars in the window signifying there were five family members in active duty military. She was honorably discharged as a Seaman First Class in 1945. On October 25, 1945, she married Boyce Harold "Buck" Price who preceded her in death December 7, 2005. Together they were parents of four children and once the children were in school, Mrs. Price joined the Maury County Hospital volunteer program, now Maury Regional Auxiliary, where she served thirty-one years, chairing the clothesline, the volunteer newsletter, working in the gift shop, and serving other places there. She was instrumental in organizing softball for girls at the Columbia Recreation Center and served as President of the League in 1966. Her hobbies included: crocheting, quilting, painting, working puzzle books, plastic canvas, and being involved at her church. Elsie was a charter member of Loyal Chapel Free Will Baptist Church, where she and her husband taught Sunday School for forty years. She compiled "50 Years of Continuous Service", a history of Loyal Chapel Free Will Baptist Church and a second edition, "History of Loyal Chapel". She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Family was important to Elsie and she loved spending time with her grandchildren, as well as her children. Survivors include her daughters, Sandra Gill of Columbia, Sheryl Byrd Davin of Mira Loma, California; sons, John Douglas (Carolyn) Price of Culleoka, Jack Howard (Kathy) Price of Columbia; brother, William Dean "Bill" Taylor of Illinois; ten grandchildren, twenty-five great grandchildren, and four great great grandchildren.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two grandsons, Jeff Craig and Nathaniel Chapman; and her siblings, Howard Clay Taylor, Carrie Willadean Burgess, Rosemond Alvena Sheets, Clara May Rose, Ben Franklin Taylor, George Wesley Taylor, Charles Allen Taylor, Mary Louise Hodge, Helen Rosella Hart, Delmar Lee Taylor, Jack Elyon Taylor, baby John Taylor, and baby Pansy Lou Taylor.

Pallbearers will be her nephews, grandsons, and men of Loyal Chapel Free Will Baptist Church. Honorary pallbearers will be members of Maury Regional Auxiliary.