Othello Taylor

Visitation at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, followed by a funeral service at 2 p.m. both at Holt Memorial Chapel, with burial will be at the Alpena Cemetery.

Othello Taylor, 95, of Harrison, departed for Heaven from the Harrison Rehabilitation and Health Center on Tuesday, Dec. 12 (2017).

The daughter of Albert and Florence (Keeling) Rice was born on Nov. 8, 1922, at Freck, near where her great-grandfather had settled in the 1840s.

Visitation will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, followed by a funeral service at 2 p.m. both at Holt Memorial Chapel. Brother Dwight Crowley will officiate. Burial will be at the Alpena Cemetery. Pallbearers are Rob Crosley, Rick Crosley, Ricky Crosley, Tyler Saul, Ryan Allred, George Finney and Bob Cheshire. Honorary pallbearers include Larry Taylor and Greg Hancock.

Othello lived all her 95 years in Marion and Boone counties but came to love traveling in her later years and saw many of the central and southwestern states, yet one of her favorite trips was an annual Memorial Day outing to about a dozen area cemeteries. Her desire to “go” remained even in the nursing home where she often said, “Let's go” to her children, even if they could only walk down the hallways. Othello was also a prize-winning quilt maker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bence Taylor; her parents; one son, Terry Taylor; one grandson, Henry Taylor, five brothers, Garland, Ulys, Euel, Ray and Coy; six sisters, Letha, Lelah, Arkie, Noma, Edra and Earnestine; her sisters-in-law, Fern, Edna and Imogene; brothers-in-law, Kelly, Kelce, and Homer; and one son-in-law, Robert Crosley.

Survivors include one son and his wife, Bobby and Brenda Taylor, of Green Forest; three daughters and their husbands, Shirley and Paul Hancock, of Fort Worth, Texas, Wilma and George Finney, of Alpena, and Loretta and Bob Cheshire, of Conway; grandchildren and their spouses, Larry Taylor, Rob and Misti Crosley, Rick and Mary Crosley, Greg and Jennifer Hancock, and Paula and Terry Martin; great-grandchildren, Allison, Trinadi, Ricky, Ian, Rian, Lyndsee, Tyler, Samantha, Katie, Casen, Abby, Olivia and Madison; great-great-grandchildren, Brayden, Elisha and Grayson; one sister and her husband, Zula and Earl Hutchins, of Mesa, Arizona; and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Alpena Cemetery.

Condolences can be left online at www.holtchapel.com .