Eugene Emerson Taylor

Elwood, after mom died dad was very depressed. It took him about a year to get back his usual joie de vivre and mom was the one who
Kept up
Household correspondence and paper work. I'm sure he remembered you with the same fondness you've shown for him.

Gene and I went to grade school, high school and college together. He was my closest friend thru all those years. I amso saddened to learn of his death.
We were both on the high school track teamas competitors inth half mile. In our senior year I beat him one week and he beat me the following week to both win our letters. For three summeres we were tent mates in Blister Rust camps. we havent seen each other inmanyyears but used to exchange Christmas cards annually For whatever...

It is wonderful to hear these words about my dad. Thanks to all of you who remember him with such deep respect.

I am saddened by the loss of Gene Taylor. I knew him when I was a student of his work, when he was a resident, finishing his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship when he was in his sixties -remarkable, as a co-teacher, and colleague. He is a gentle giant among those who work to serve mentally ill persons in Oregon. Early in his career he brought his abundant intelligence to the study of Oregon's children's mental health services. His steady, kind and compassionate care was a model for...

I am sad to hear of Dr. Taylor's passing. We worked together in several different contexts over the years and I always learned from him. He was a gentle, compassionate, and abundantly kind person, who never ceased learning throughout his career. He was one of the very earliest and longest lasting community psychiatrists in Oregon. His soft-spoken style was comforting to his patients. He effectively understood and applied many aspects of psychiatric care for those who were the most in need...

I will certainly miss Dr. Taylor's humor and humility. His presence at many an OPA meeting was an important link to the past.

Gene was a colleague and role model in psychiatry. I valued and respected his knowledge, wisdom, gentle spirit, humor, and humility.

I am so sad to hear of Gene's passing, not that he hasn't lived a full life but that I won't get a chance to visit with him again. As a someone who trained under Gene at OHSU, I was lucky to get to know his kind, soft-spoken and humble ways.