Betty Taylor's Obituary
Services for Betty Taylor, 93, of Lufkin will be held Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. in the Colonial Mortuary Chapel. Burial will follow in the Davis Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. till time of services on Saturday. Mrs. Taylor was born September 19, 1924 in Clayborn, Alabama and died February 23, 2018 in Lufkin. Betty Mills Taylor, was the first of ten children born to Henry and Mattie Mills. Betty was born on September 19, 1924 in Claiborne, Alabama.
The family later moved to Monroeville, Alabama where she attended school and was a member of The Morning Star Baptist Church. Betty later moved to Prichard, Alabama where she met and married Robert Henry Taylor on June 5, 1944 and became the mother of four girls. Betty was the glue that kept the family together. She was no stranger to work and taught her girls the same. She united with the Friendship Primitive Baptist Church and was deeply committed to the Senior Usher Board, Mission Ministry and the Food Committee.
After retirement, Betty moved to Lufkin, Texas in the summer of 1995. She united with the Peaceful Rest Missionary Baptist Church on October 22, 1995, where she worked on the Usher Board. She also enjoyed attending Sunday School and the Mission. Betty was the mother of the Church. She will be greatly missed.
Betty was preceded in death by: her parents and her husband Robert Taylor; A sister, Dorothy Dennis; Brothers, Henry Mills, Jr., Johnny Mills and Arnold Mills.
Left to cherish her memories: Four devoted daughters, Joyce Bell and Betty Welcome of Boston, Mass., Shirley (Willard) Graham of Lufkin, TX. Mattie Myers of Rhode Island; Two brothers, Eddie and Theodore Mills of Boston, Mass.Three sisters, Elois Crooks of Dallas, Texas, Rosie Clausell of Stone Mountain, Georgia, Barbara Washington of Boston, Mass., two Sister-in laws,Hattie Mills of Slidell, La. and Inell Taylor of Cincinnati, Ohio : Eight grandchildren; Eighteen great-great-grandchildren and six Great-great grandchildren and a host of family and friends.
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