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Denzil Ray Taylor

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Denzil Ray Taylor

Birth
West Virginia, USA
Death
15 Dec 1967 (aged 25)
Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Harrisville, Ritchie County, West Virginia, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.2047497, Longitude: -81.0492758
Memorial ID
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S/O Frederick F Taylor and Melva Law

Victim of Silver Bridge collapse in Point Pleasant, Mason Co., WV

Silver Bridge

Wife's obituary - see paragraph two regarding Denzil.

They were expecting their first child in January 1968.

Point Pleasant Register
Point Pleasant, WV.
December 1967.
Mrs. Taylor's Rites Saturday.

Funeral services for Glenna Mae Taylor, 23, of Point Pleasant, the 36th victim of the Silver Bridge disaster to be recovered from the Ohio River, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lewis-Rogers Funeral Home in Pennsboro, W.Va.

Burial will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Harrisville. Mrs. Taylor was the wife of Denzil Ray Taylor, a Point Pleasant High School teacher, who was in the car with her when the bridge collapsed. His body has not been recovered.

Mrs. Taylor was born Jan. 27, 1944, in Baltimore, Md., the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Grose of Pennsboro.

She was a former teacher on leave from Point Pleasant High School and with her husband had resided in the K & K Mobile Home Park near the Point Pleasant city limits. The couple had been expecting their first child in January.

She was a graduate of Glenville State College and a member of the Pennsboro Church of Christ. Here she attended both Bellemeade EUB and Trinity Methodist Churches. Friends may call at the Lewis-Rogers Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Friday. If the body of Denzil Taylor is found before Saturday, it was reported, joint funeral services will take place. If not a special memorial service will be conducted along with funeral services for his wife.
S/O Frederick F Taylor and Melva Law

Victim of Silver Bridge collapse in Point Pleasant, Mason Co., WV

Silver Bridge

Wife's obituary - see paragraph two regarding Denzil.

They were expecting their first child in January 1968.

Point Pleasant Register
Point Pleasant, WV.
December 1967.
Mrs. Taylor's Rites Saturday.

Funeral services for Glenna Mae Taylor, 23, of Point Pleasant, the 36th victim of the Silver Bridge disaster to be recovered from the Ohio River, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lewis-Rogers Funeral Home in Pennsboro, W.Va.

Burial will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Harrisville. Mrs. Taylor was the wife of Denzil Ray Taylor, a Point Pleasant High School teacher, who was in the car with her when the bridge collapsed. His body has not been recovered.

Mrs. Taylor was born Jan. 27, 1944, in Baltimore, Md., the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Grose of Pennsboro.

She was a former teacher on leave from Point Pleasant High School and with her husband had resided in the K & K Mobile Home Park near the Point Pleasant city limits. The couple had been expecting their first child in January.

She was a graduate of Glenville State College and a member of the Pennsboro Church of Christ. Here she attended both Bellemeade EUB and Trinity Methodist Churches. Friends may call at the Lewis-Rogers Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Friday. If the body of Denzil Taylor is found before Saturday, it was reported, joint funeral services will take place. If not a special memorial service will be conducted along with funeral services for his wife.


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