Jennifer Taylor

1946 - 2022

In Loving Memory of Jennifer Bell Taylor. Jennifer Bell Taylor passed away Monday, September 12, 2022, at the Delhi Hospital in Richland parish after a two-year battle with metastatic breast cancer and complications from Covid. Mrs. Taylor was born September 1, 1946, in the St. Francis Hospital in Monroe, LA. After graduating valedictorian from Mangham High School 1964, she attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where she completed her degree in Literary Arts in 1968. On September 2, 1966, she married her husband of 51 years, John Howell Taylor of Baton Rouge, where they would remain active community members for the next 32 years. While in Baton Rouge, Jennifer became the director of the Louisiana Senior Olympics, an activity she always remembered with great fondness. She was also active in the Junior League of Baton Rouge, as well as her bridge club comprised of many of her closest friends. In 1998, she and her husband John moved to her childhood home of Mangham, LA to be close to Jennifer's parents, Robert "Bob" and Faye Bell. She then began teaching English at Riverfield Academy, where she also managed the publication of the yearbook. She would later teach English at Mangham High School, where she would sponsor multiple school organizations including snap dragons and Beta. Jennifer truly loved academics and being an educator and mentor to her students. A Celebration of Life for Jennifer will be held Sunday, September 25, 2022 from 11am – 1pm at The Estuary at The Water Campus, 1110 River Road S., Baton Rouge, LA 70802. Memorials may be made to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, https://www.komen.org/