Cecelia Lou Taylor

CECELIA LOU TAYLOR WAS BORN NOVEMBER 9, 1956, IN OKEMAH, OKLAHOMA TO HOWARD V. (BOB) COX AND HELEN PAULINE (BERRY) COX. SHE PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025, IN OKEMAH, OKLAHOMA, AT THE AGE OF 68.
CECELIA, LOVINGLY KNOWN AS CELY BY HER NIECES AND NEPHEWS, WAS A RESIDENT OF THE OKEMAH AREA MOST OF HER LIFE. SHE WAS A GRADUATE OF BUTNER HIGH SCHOOL AT CROMWELL GRADUATING IN 1975 WHERE SHE WAS FEATURED IN "WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS". SHE LATER RECEIVED HER BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN BUSINESS FROM EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY IN ADA. CECELIA WORKED FOR THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA FOR MANY YEARS BEGINNING HER CAREER IN OKLAHOMA CITY AT THE STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN VITAL STATISTICS AND LATER TRANSFERRING TO THE WEWOKA HEALTH DEPARTMENT THEN TRANSFERRING TO OKEMAH. SHE LATER WORKED FOR MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
CECECLIA MARRIED TOMMY TAYLOR ON JANUARY 10, 1986, IN CASTLE, OKLAHOMA AND THEY WERE BLESSED WITH TWO LOVING AND DEVOTED DAUGHTERS, AMY AND ASHLY. CECELIA WAS DEARLY LOVED BY HER FAMILY INCLUDING HER NIECES AND NEPHEWS WHOM SHE DEVOTED MUCH TIME TO IN HER YOUNGER YEARS TAKING TO MOVIES AND ENTERTAINING THEM. SHE WAS ESPECIALLY PROUD OF HER TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS, TRINITY AND EMBER, WHO LOVED VISITING AND PLAYING GAMES WITH THEIR MIMI; THEY BROUGHT HER MUCH JOY. SHE WAS AN ANIMAL LOVER AND ENJOYED READING IN HER YOUNGER YEARS, TRAVEL AND BEING WITH FAMILY. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF CASTLE BAPTIST CHURCH.
SHE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS AND SIBLINGS ROBERT "BOBBY" COX, GARY WAYNE COX AND PATRICIA ANN HAWKINS AND BROTHER-IN-LAWS JIMMY R. HAWKINS, JIMMY F. WEBB AND DAVID L. BEETS.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, TOMMY TAYLOR, TWO DAUGHTERS, AMY LEANN TAYLOR AND HUSBAND STEPHEN, AND ASHLEY ROSE TAYLOR ALL OF OKEMAH. THREE SISTERS, LINDA KAY WEBB AND SUE BEETS OF OKEMAH, JOANIE LEONARD AND HUSBAND WESLEY, EAGLETOWN, OKLAHOMA, AND SISTER-IN-LAW JUNE COX OF HARRAH. TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS TRINITY AND EMBER TAYLOR. CECELIA WAS ONE OF FIVE COX SISTERS WHO WERE VERY DEVOTED TO EACH OTHER.
A CELEBRATION OF CECELIA'S LIFE WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025, AT THE LAST CHANCE BAPTIST CHURCH WITH BROTHER DON BAKER OFFICIATING. A POT LUCK DINNER WILL FOLLOW THE SERVICE.
ALL ARRANGEMENTS ARE BEING HANDLED BY PARKS BROTHERS FUNERAL HOME, OKEMAH, OKLAHOMA.
ONLINE CONDOLENCES MAY BE MADE AT WWW.PARKSBROTHERSFUNDERALHOME.COM