JAMES ASHLEY TAYLOR SR.

JAMES ASHLEY (BLINKY) TAYLOR, SR. Funeral services for James
Ashley (Blinky) Taylor, Sr., age 82, of Fort Pierce, FL, will be conducted on Friday, February 13, 2015, at 11:00AM from the chapel of Yates Funeral Home at 1101 S. U 1 in Fort Pierce. Interment will follow at White City Cemetery. Mr. Taylor was born on February 15, 1932, in Colquitt, GA, to the late Floyd G. Taylor and Elizabeth Aveline Slay Taylor. He was the grandson of the late James Ashley & Dora White Taylor of Colquitt, GA, and the late Robert Edward & Marguerite Combel Slay of Fort Pierce. Mr. Taylor passed away peacefully with family by his side on Monday, February 9, 2015, at 9:30PM. Mr. Taylor was a long-time resident of Fort Pierce, having graduated from Fort Pierce High School in 1950. He proudly served in the United States Marine Corp from 1950 to 1954 as a Drill Instructor and in the Korean War. He started his career working for Tripson Dairy. He later owned and operated the Garden State Motel, in addition to many other enterprises. He started Blinky's Roof Coating in 1965; which is the present day J.A. Taylor Roofing, one of Southeast Florida's oldest commercial and residential roofing firms. Mr. Taylor was a member of Westside Baptist Church of Fort Pierce. He was an avid car collector involved in many car shows and a member of the Treasure Coast Antique Automobile Club. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Patricia Kendall Taylor; 3 sons, James Ashley Taylor, Jr. (Debbie), Steven Kendall Taylor (Ronnie), and Chad Gerome Taylor (Lacey) all Fort Pierce; grandchildren Juliana Taylor Walker (Randy), and James Ashley Taylor III of Port St. Lucie, Jenna Ann Taylor of Orlando, and Greyson Kendall Taylor, and Jesse Diehl of Fort Pierce, as well as his maternal aunts, Elodie Slay Tabor McReady of Port St. Lucie, FL, Margie Slay Ernst of Melbourne, FL and Lanette Slay Egers of Fort Pierce, FL along with one niece, 2 nephews and many cousins from the Buchanan, Egers, Ernst, Holden, Mauck, Slay, Taylor, Johnson, Adams, and Triay families, across the southeast. In addition to his parents, and stepfather, Coney Murello, Mr. Taylor was preceded in death by his brothers, Robert Floyd Taylor, Timothy Alan Taylor, and sisters, Shirley Inez Taylor Shreckengost, and Aveline (Jerry) Taylor Schwebke. The family will receive friends at Yates Funeral Home on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, from 5:00PM until 7:00PM. A guest register may be signed at www.yatesfuneralhome.com.