Funeral services for Helen Lavern Taylor, 92, of Hanceville will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at Bethlehem East Baptist Church. Rev. Russ Fox and her grandson, Joby Crane, officiating, with interment in the church cemetery. Hanceville Funeral Home directing. Her family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday evening beginning at 6 p.m.
Mrs. Taylor was called home by her Creator and Lord on Sunday, March 3, 2019. She was born July 21, 1926 to Clarence and Ollie Miller Bailey. In 1945 she married Henry Leslie Taylor. They enjoyed over 70 wonderful years together, raising seven children. She was a loving wife, mother and longtime member of Bethlehem East Baptist Church.
Mrs. Taylor was preceded in death by her parents, husband and two brothers.
She is survived by sons Larry (Linda) Taylor, Garry (Jan) Taylor, and Bobby (Kim) Taylor; daughters Joyce Scott, Linda (Dr. Joe) Crane, Terri Taylor and Janie (Tony) Novara; sisters Mildred (Thomas) Graves, Ola Mae Callahan and Evelyn Tucker; twenty-one grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren, one great-great-granddaughter, one great-great-grandson and a host of nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Taylor Family Endowment Scholarship at the Business School at Auburn University (317 College St. Auburn, AL 36489).
