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John Taylor Obituary
TAYLOR JOHN E. TAYLOR On Sunday, September 21, 2008 of Chevy Chase, MD. Husband of the late Dolly H. Taylor. John is survived by a niece, Claudia Taylor Walsworth and a nephew, James Lee Taylor. Memorial service will be held at the National Archives Building, 700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20408, on Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 2 p.m. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the National Archives Trust Fund for the John E. Taylor Book Collection, ALIC/NWCCA National Archives, 8601 Adelphia Rd., College Park, MD 20740 or Claudia Taylor Walsworth for the John E. Taylor Memorial Bench Fund for a bench located at Archives II in College Park Maryland, P.O. 1248, Ketchum, ID 83340. Please view and sign the family guestbook at: www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
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Margaret Shannon
October 5, 2008
Mr. Taylor was one of the most amazing people I've ever known. For nearly two decades, he revealed the riches of the World War II collections to me, and even steered clients to me, when he thought I was the best person to assist them. Together with Robert Wolfe, former chief of Captured German Records, they literally tutored me in the arcana of newly declassified documents as well as ones long open but little used. Always a gracious luncheon companion, Mr. Taylor -- I never could call him John -- is truly one of the great treasures of American archives. I really didn't think he would ever retire - and he didn't! He remained active until his last day. May God grant him peace and rest at the last, and surely the Archives of Heaven have been awaiting with anticipation his arrival to sort them out!
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