Donald Taylor

Memorial Gathering for Donald Anthony Taylor, 48, will be on Monday, September 17th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel of Anchorage (440 E. Klatt Rd.).

Donald died September 9, 2012 at Alaska Native Medical Center. He was born on June 1, 1964 in Fairbanks and graduated with A GED from Fairbanks High School. He lived in Fairbanks, Barrow, Pruhdoe Bay, Valdez and Anchorage. He has worked for Jiffy Lube, AK Auto Glass, Labor Ready, Best Glass, Replacement Glass all in Anchorage; Stosh's IM, M&R Automotive, Petroleum Contractors, Taylor Mining and Exploration, Fairbanks Gold Mining and Houston Contracting in Fairbanks. He enjoyed automotive repair, mining and fishing.

According to his family, "Donald was born and raised in Fairbanks and relocated to Anchorage. He was peaceful, kind, compassionate and caring. He was good to everyone. He brought much joy, happiness and laughter to everyone and everywhere he went. He was always helping others and will be sorely missed by all who loved him and knew him. He loved traveling and had been to many states, Canada and Mexico. He was a jack of all trades. He was generous to a fault and beloved to many. He graduated from Lively - Votech as a auto body technician and professional painter and was sougt by Martin-Senour and various professions of the trade."

He was preceeded in death by his father, Joseph Fredrick Taylor, Sr.; mother, Maria Elizabeth Taylor; 2 brothers, Adam and Andrew Taylor and sister Gertrude Taylor.

He is survived by 3 sisters, Debbie Suvlu of Barrow, LuBeth Henriksen of Wiscon Rapids, Wisconsin and Sandy Taylor of Roseburg, Oregon; 2 brothers, Rex Rock, Sr. of Point Hope and Joseph Fredrick Taylor, Jr. of Nenana; and many other aunts and uncles, nephews and nieces and cousins in Alaska and the US.