Joseph Taylor

Family-Placed Death Notice

TAYLOR, Joseph JOSEPH KREYCIK TAYLOR Joseph Kreycik Taylor, Atlanta GA, was born February 27, 1925, on an Angus cattle ranch in the Nebraska sand hills and died April 29, 2011, after a short illness. He attended the one room school in Woodlake, Nebraska for the first eight grades and high school in Omaha. He was drafted in 1942 into the US Navy and sent to officers training at the University of Texas in Austin where he was awarded a degree in Electrical Engineering, Commission in the US Navy and a discharge, all on the same day in June 1946. He earned an MBA in Health Administration from Northwestern University-Evanston, Il (1953) and a PhD in business from Georgia State University (1978). Joe believed in continuing education throughout life for us all. Joe worked in healthcare for his entire career. He was chief executive in hospitals in Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and Georgia. He planned, purchased land, built, and managed Northside Hospital, a non-profit county hospital with an independent board of directors and an open medical staff. He taught healthcare management at GSU and University of Houston at Clear Lake. He retired from UH-CLC in 1995 as chairman of the Department of Hospital and Healthcare Management. He and Lou returned to their home in Atlanta. Joe funded a Chair in the Healthcare Program at GSU, and he and Lou funded Scholarship Programs at GSU and UH-CLC. Between 1974 and 1993, Joe taught healthcare management in Saudi Arabia, Bordeaux, France, Istanbul, Turkey, Beijing, Xian, and Guilin, China, Guadalajara, Mexico, and Haydarpasa, Turkey. Joe served on boards of directors for Blue Cross of Georgia, The Galloway Schools, GSU Foundation (as chairman of the finance committee), the IRB for AIDS Research in Atlanta, and the Fulton County Board of Equalization. Joe is survived by Lou Taylor, his wife of 63 years, two sons, Keith Kreycik and spouse Marcia, and John Taylor and one daughter Dr. Jane Taylor, Ed.D. and her husband Carl Haugan of St Paul, MN, two grandchildren Claire Kreycik of Golden. CO and Philip Kreycik of Cambridge, MA, as well as two brothers Robert Kreycik and his wife Bonnie of Denver CO, Edward Kreycik and his wife Evelyn of Hendersonville, NC and one sister Ruth Prendergast of Denver. Two weeks before Joe died, he attended a "Celebration of Life" party in his honor with friends and family. He loved it. At his wishes Joe's body was donated to Emory University Medical School. Friends and family may make donations to St Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Atlanta, GA or to their favorite charity.