Eugene Calvin "Gene" Taylor Sr.

TAYLOR, Eugene Calvin "Gene" Sr., 80, eldest son of Philip Lynn and Dolly Rhodes Taylor, passed away on Sunday, August 17, 2008. He is survived by his son, Eugene C. Taylor Jr.; three grand-children, Wendy C., Warren T. and Rachel A. Taylor ; two brothers, Philip L. Taylor Jr. and his wife, Clara Jean, and M. Courtney Taylor and his wife, Linda; one sister, Dorothy Taylor Zeller and her companion, Rudy Rogers. He retired as an optometrist with Bausch & Lomb with over 25 years of service. He was a self taught musician with a keen ear for music and loved to play the piano, accordion, harmonica and mouth harp. He was very active in community affairs; he volunteered as a dispatcher for the Ashland Police Dept., and was a frequent attendee of the Ashland Town Council meetings. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, August 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Nelsen Funeral Homes Reid Chapel, Ashland. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Thursday, August 21, in the First Baptist Church, Ashland, with burial in Woodland Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Children's Hospital of Richmond.


This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.