Grace Goodman Taylor

GRACE GOODMAN TAYLOR, resident of the Gallaway area, died at 9:32 P.M. Sunday, March 9, 2008, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. She was 80 years of age and died following an extended illness.
Funeral services for Mrs. Taylor were conducted at 2 P.M. Thursday at the Peebles Main Funeral Chapel in Somerville with Rev. Loyd Shelton of Rossville, officiating. Interment followed in the Evergreen Cemetery at Williston. Arrangements were provided by Peebles Fayette County Funeral Home - Main Chapel of Somerville.
Mrs. Taylor was born February 24, 1928, in the Vildo Community of Hardeman County, the daughter of the late Washington Goodman and the late Pauline Pittman Goodman. Mrs. Taylor was educated in the public school system of Hardeman County and was first the wife of Wesley Leon Perkins who preceded her in death January 8, 1978. After his death, Mrs. Taylor was married April 6, 1982, to Lymuel "Bill" Taylor, who survives.
Mrs. Taylor was a homemaker and had been a lifelong resident of the Hardeman and Fayette County areas. She was of the Baptist faith and her interests included cooking and sewing. Mrs. Taylor will be remembered as a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Taylor is survived by her daughter, Wanda Kemp and her son, Richard "Rick" D. Perkins, both of Memphis; her sister, Joyce Brown of Williston; her brothers, Robert Logan of Somerville, Wayne Pittman of Memphis; 14 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
Those honored to serve as casketbearers were Andre Brock, Donnie Perkins, Richard Barbera, David Hill, Vernon Hill and Ricky Prescott.