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- [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 7 Nov 2004.
Mary Josephine Taylor Ford obituary
- [S113] Manes Funeral Home, (http://www.manesfuneralhome.com), 28 Nov 2006.
Thomas Hunter Taylor, 56, died of complications of esophageal cancer, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Born and raised in Newport, Tenn., Tom graduated from The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., Career Army, he retired in 1996, and then earned a B.S.W. magna cum laude at Colorado State University, and an M.A. in psychology at Chapman University, Orange, California. At the time of his death , he was employed at Spanish Peaks Mental Health Center, Pueblo, Colorado. Tom was an avid fisherman, and loved the outdoors; he enjoyed cards, reading, and genealogy. Throughout life, he endeavored to be kind. Tom was the son of the late Hugh and Aylene Johnson Taylor, Newport, Tenn., and grandson of the late Alfred and Janie Chilton Taylor of Newport, Tenn., and the late Thomas Woodson and Allie Smith Johnson, of Morristown, Tenn. He is survived by his loving wife, Su Ja, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; brother Hugh Parmenas Taylor, of White Pine, Tenn.; cousins Alfred Taylor Ford, Dr. Hobart Ford, Newport, Tenn., and Dr. John Taylor Purvis, of Knoxville, Tenn.;and his caregiver, Clarice Stewart, of Newport, Tenn. Although a resident of Colorado Springs for some 16 years, Tom was a 7th generation Tennessean, and considered himself a Tennesean. He was descended from Col. Parmenas Taylor, Taylors Bend, Jefferson County, Tenn., and who was appointed by President Washington to the upper Council of the Southwest Territory; Captain Jonathan Langdon, Virginia continental Line; and member of the Society of Cincinnati in the State of Virginia (composed of Revolutionary officers); Col. Parmenas Taylor Turnley, U.S. Army and founder and former President of the Aztec Society (composed of veterans of the Mexican American War); and multiple members of First Families of Tennessee and First Families of Virginia. The family will receive friends at Manes Funeral Home Chapel on Saturday, December 9, 2006, at 1:30p.m., followed by services at 2:30 p.m. and interment at Union Cemetery, Newport.
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