MARGARET ALICE TAYLOR FLOWERS

-->MARGARET ALICE TAYLOR FLOWERS "Meg," born the 2nd of December 1938 in Bay City, Texas, died Friday, the 30th of April 2010, after a long battle with cancer.The oldest child of Frances Alene Collier and William Josiah Taylor, Jr., she married David C. Flowers in 1985. She is survived by three daughters and their husbands, Jennifer and Lyman Paden, Rebecca and Brian Oxley, and Elizabeth and Michael Murray; her step-daughters, Kay Flowers and Karen Stephens and husband Denny; by her sister, Frances Pearson; and by her brothers, Bill Taylor and Walker Taylor. She is also survived by her five grandchildren, Gregory and Ben Oxley, Rachel Pearson, and Caroline and Alexander Paden.A 1956 graduate of San Jacinto High School (in Houston), she obtained a B.A. from Vassar College in 1960, and a M.M.A. and D.M.A. from Rice University, Shepherd School of Music, in 1990 and 2004. Meg served as organist, choirmaster and Music Director at several Episcopal parishes in Houston: St. Matthew's, St. John the Divine, Church of the Epiphany, and Palmer Church. She concluded her distinguished career as a church musician and liturgist with Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, retiring in January 2010. She was a longstanding member of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians, and has served as Dean of the Houston Chapter of the AGO and Chairman of the Diocesan Music Commission.Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from seven until nine o'clock in the evening on Monday, the 3rd of May, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.A memorial service is to be conducted at five o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, the 4th of May, at Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Avenue in Houston, where the Rev. Canon Edward L. Stein and the Rev. David Roschke are to officiate.Prior to the memorial service, the family will have gathered for a private interment ceremony at South Park Cemetery in Pearland.In lieu of customary remembrances, the family suggests charitable contributions in her name be directed to the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, P.O. Box 1892Houston, TX, 77251; or to the Metropolitan Organization, 4141 Southwest Freeway, Suite 650, Houston, TX, 77027.