Obituary courtesy of Dawn Kelley.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996:
FORT WORTH -- Virginia Wood Taylor, 93, a retired teacher, died Thursday in Fort Worth.
Funeral: 2 p.m. today at Greenwood Funeral Home. Burial: Greenwood Memorial Park.
Memorials: Nocona Public Library in Nocona.
Virginia Wood Taylor was born Nov. 4, 1902, in Jacksboro, to Alexander Campbell Wood and Ida Keene Wood. As a girl she lived in Jacksboro, Kingsville and Nocona, where her father owned drug stores. She graduated from Nocona High School in 1920 and from the University of Denver in 1922. She returned to Nocona to teach high school English and married Alonzo Clason Taylor, a highway engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, on May 30, 1932. Mrs. Taylor received a master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1936 and followed an active teaching career in South Carolina, Virginia, the Philippines and Fort Worth, until her retirement in 1967. She was head of the Lower School of the American School in Manila from 1952 to 1955 and taught third grade at Glencrest Elementary School in Fort Worth from 1956 until her retirement. She was brought up in the Christian church and for the last few years she was a member of the Episcopal Communion Group at Broadway Plaza in Fort Worth.
She was preceded in death by her husband, two sisters and a brother.
Survivors: son and daughter-in-law, Lonn and Edith Taylor of Washington, D.C.; and numerous nieces and nephews and hosts of friends.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996:
FORT WORTH -- Virginia Wood Taylor, 93, a retired teacher, died Thursday in Fort Worth.
Funeral: 2 p.m. today at Greenwood Funeral Home. Burial: Greenwood Memorial Park.
Memorials: Nocona Public Library in Nocona.
Virginia Wood Taylor was born Nov. 4, 1902, in Jacksboro, to Alexander Campbell Wood and Ida Keene Wood. As a girl she lived in Jacksboro, Kingsville and Nocona, where her father owned drug stores. She graduated from Nocona High School in 1920 and from the University of Denver in 1922. She returned to Nocona to teach high school English and married Alonzo Clason Taylor, a highway engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, on May 30, 1932. Mrs. Taylor received a master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1936 and followed an active teaching career in South Carolina, Virginia, the Philippines and Fort Worth, until her retirement in 1967. She was head of the Lower School of the American School in Manila from 1952 to 1955 and taught third grade at Glencrest Elementary School in Fort Worth from 1956 until her retirement. She was brought up in the Christian church and for the last few years she was a member of the Episcopal Communion Group at Broadway Plaza in Fort Worth.
She was preceded in death by her husband, two sisters and a brother.
Survivors: son and daughter-in-law, Lonn and Edith Taylor of Washington, D.C.; and numerous nieces and nephews and hosts of friends.
Obituary courtesy of Dawn Kelley.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996:
FORT WORTH -- Virginia Wood Taylor, 93, a retired teacher, died Thursday in Fort Worth.
Funeral: 2 p.m. today at Greenwood Funeral Home. Burial: Greenwood Memorial Park.
Memorials: Nocona Public Library in Nocona.
Virginia Wood Taylor was born Nov. 4, 1902, in Jacksboro, to Alexander Campbell Wood and Ida Keene Wood. As a girl she lived in Jacksboro, Kingsville and Nocona, where her father owned drug stores. She graduated from Nocona High School in 1920 and from the University of Denver in 1922. She returned to Nocona to teach high school English and married Alonzo Clason Taylor, a highway engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, on May 30, 1932. Mrs. Taylor received a master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1936 and followed an active teaching career in South Carolina, Virginia, the Philippines and Fort Worth, until her retirement in 1967. She was head of the Lower School of the American School in Manila from 1952 to 1955 and taught third grade at Glencrest Elementary School in Fort Worth from 1956 until her retirement. She was brought up in the Christian church and for the last few years she was a member of the Episcopal Communion Group at Broadway Plaza in Fort Worth.
She was preceded in death by her husband, two sisters and a brother.
Survivors: son and daughter-in-law, Lonn and Edith Taylor of Washington, D.C.; and numerous nieces and nephews and hosts of friends.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996:
FORT WORTH -- Virginia Wood Taylor, 93, a retired teacher, died Thursday in Fort Worth.
Funeral: 2 p.m. today at Greenwood Funeral Home. Burial: Greenwood Memorial Park.
Memorials: Nocona Public Library in Nocona.
Virginia Wood Taylor was born Nov. 4, 1902, in Jacksboro, to Alexander Campbell Wood and Ida Keene Wood. As a girl she lived in Jacksboro, Kingsville and Nocona, where her father owned drug stores. She graduated from Nocona High School in 1920 and from the University of Denver in 1922. She returned to Nocona to teach high school English and married Alonzo Clason Taylor, a highway engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, on May 30, 1932. Mrs. Taylor received a master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1936 and followed an active teaching career in South Carolina, Virginia, the Philippines and Fort Worth, until her retirement in 1967. She was head of the Lower School of the American School in Manila from 1952 to 1955 and taught third grade at Glencrest Elementary School in Fort Worth from 1956 until her retirement. She was brought up in the Christian church and for the last few years she was a member of the Episcopal Communion Group at Broadway Plaza in Fort Worth.
She was preceded in death by her husband, two sisters and a brother.
Survivors: son and daughter-in-law, Lonn and Edith Taylor of Washington, D.C.; and numerous nieces and nephews and hosts of friends.
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