Obituary of JAMES ROY TAYLOR, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd., Gulfport, MS 39503 From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La. Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for allowing the following to be added to the Archives. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Date: July 14, 1999, Wednesday Headline: Area Deaths James Roy Taylor, 69, of Tioga, died Monday, July 12, 1999, in Alexandria. He was a native of Columbia and was raised at Trout. He had lived at Tioga since 1962. He worked for Huffman Mercantile for 26 years before he bought out the Route in 1980. Upon buying out the route, he changed the name to Taylor Mercantile and worked there until 1996. Services will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, July 14, in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home in Pineville with Rev. Larry Chapman officiating. Interment will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial park of Pineville under direction of Hixson Brothers, Inc., of Pineville. Survivors include two sons, George R. Taylor and Ricky G. Randall, both of Tioga; one daughter, Clara Nichols of Tioga; his mother, Hattie M. Taylor Sanson of Tioga; one brother, Dale Taylor of Lufkin, Tx.; nine grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Memorial may be made to the Senior Citizens Center in Pineville.