Submitted by

Ken Gates

 

 

 

 

Published in the Waco Tribune-Herald from 3/27/2008 - 3/28/2008

 

 

Florence Alene (Wells) Taylor

August 26, 1918 – March 26, 2008

 

     Florence Alene (Wells) Taylor, precious mother and grandmother, passed peacefully into her Lord's waiting arms March 26, 2008, at her residence in Lorena with loving family around her. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 28, at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd. Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, March 29, at First Baptist Church in Lott, Texas, with the Rev. Randy Osborn officiating. Burial will follow at Clover Hill Cemetery in Lott, Texas.

 

     A slide show of her life will be shown during the visitation and online at www.oakcrestwaco.com. Alene was born Aug. 26, 1918 in Hubbard (Hill County), Texas, to parents Robert and Fannie (Kelsey) Crow. Her mother passed away six weeks after her birth and she was adopted in January 1919 by Will and Willie Wells. A sister died before her birth and her father later died in an accident working for the railroad.

 

     She grew up in Falls County and graduated from Lott High School in 1936 and married Clay Kyle Taylor on Oct. 30, 1937. She loved and cared greatly for her family and friends and worked tirelessly in her church where she taught Sunday school and Vacation Bible School. She was PTA president during her children's school years and was a teacher's aid at Lott Elementary. She enjoyed cooking for her family and friends, her hobbies included flower gardening, sewing and crafts.

 

     She was preceded in death by son, Clay Kyle Taylor Jr.; adopted parents, Will and Willie Wells; brother, Richard Crow; husband, Clay Kyle Taylor; son-in-law and daughter, Gordon and Betty Helgeson; sons-in-law, David Sims and Buford Gaeke; grandson, Jeffrey Sims; and great-granddaughter, Hannah Sims.

 

     She is survived by sons, Richard Taylor, and John Taylor and wife, Donna of Madisonville; daughters, Pauline Gaeke of Lott, Elaine Sims of Lorena, Jane Taylor of Sacramento Calif., Ann White and husband, GB of Rosebud, Della Goins and husband, Bobby of Chattanooga Tenn., and Pamela Taylor of Ft. Worth; 24 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; brother-in-law, Frank W. Taylor. The family wishes to thank the therapists at St. Catherine's Rehab Department for her care after the stroke, her physician, Dr. James Sharp and Scott & White Hospice for their help and care during our mother's two year illness.

 

     Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church and Clover Hill Cemetery, Lott, Texas, or Scott & White Hospice, Temple, Texas.

 

     The online guestbook is available at www.oakcrestwaco.com. August 26, 1918 - March 26, 2008 Sign the Guest Book at www.wacotrib.com