ALBERT HOWARD TAYLOR

Bulley-Graham-Rawlins Funeral Home regrets to announce the passing of ALBERT (BIX) HOWARD TAYLOR, in his 70th year of Fubler Villa, 26 Cedar Avenue, Pembroke, on September 7th, 2025, after a prolonged illness. Albert was born June 19th, 1956 to loving parents John Howard Taylor and Inez Taylor (nee Tucker). When Albert was four years old, the Taylor family moved to Philadelphia. He attended the Carson Long College Preparatory and Military Academy in Bloomfield, PA, graduating in the Class of 1975. He continued his education with studies in Biochemistry and later Art History at Lincoln University in Philadelphia. On his return to Bermuda from Philadelphia in the mid-1980s, Albert volunteered and served in the Bermuda Regiment, earning the rank of Lance Corporal. He worked in the treasury department for the Bank of Butterfield. He was an artist and graphic designer, and photographer, and did dark room development work for the Royal Gazette. Albert was also a pressman for the paper and proud of his easy technical mastery of the printing trade. He considered it to be an extension of his career as a commercial artist. Always a scholar, he was known to conduct correspondence with a special friend in Latin. Albert followed his father's lead and became a Freemason of Abercorn Lodge #123 on the Roll of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. He had an intense love of jazz music and an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz. He was a tennis player and was active at times in the Bermuda tennis scene, serving at the Bermuda Tennis Stadium as a facilities director. At school, he boxed. Albert named Mohamed Ali as his hero, partly for his sporting success but more for Ali's championing of black causes. Albert was a determined advocate for social progress and black rights. Albert (Bix) spent his later days transfixed by the news, perplexed and disappointed by current trends in the USA. He had a lifelong fascination with both art history and art. To keep occupied through his illness, he watched hundreds of documentaries. At times, Albert had a polite and restrained manner, but with a little prompting would hold forth on the fine points of politics, history, religion, and art, or the brilliance of a particularly well-executed jazz solo. Shifting effortlessly from formal to casual, he could be raucous, loud, and boisterous with his mates as Fubler Villa often became the Cedar Avenue Social Club. Bix loved a good fish sandwich, a good steak, and a cold beer, occasionally a glass of good scotch or a rum. Albert loved his parents. Essentially, he returned to Bermuda from the US to spend time with them. He missed his parents deeply after their passing and continued to love them for the rest of his life. He is at last reunited with them in eternal rest.Albert is survived by his sister Elaine Charles (Chauncy). He was predeceased by his brothers John Herbert Taylor and Coolridge Taylor (Deborah). Albert is lovingly survived by his nephews Armand Foy, Noel Taylor, and Isak Foy; nieces Janea Foy, Iva Taylor, Christine Condon, Renee Taylor and Jona Shreeves-Taylor; cousins Diane Moreau and Laurel Taylor, the clan of Taylor cousins from Warwick; dear friends Ian and Shauna Smith, Jo Carol Robinson, Archie Walbaum, James Richardson and special friends too numerous to mention. Albert was a scholar, an artist, a lover of jazz, a lover of literature, a lover of eloquence in expression in all its forms. He was always kind to children, loved his nieces and nephews, loved his godson Caleb, and had many dear friends throughout Bermuda and Philadelphia. He will be profoundly missed and fondly remembered.There will be a graveside service at Holy Trinity Church on Saturday, 29th November 2025 at 2.00pm.Bulley-Graham-Rawlins Funeral Home & Cremation Serviceswww.bulley-graham.bm