Maury Taylor

Maury Scruggs Taylor passed away on July 10, 2013 at Baptist Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Friday, July 12, 2013 at 12:00 PM at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home in Ridgeland with visitation beginning at 11:00 AM. Burial services will follow at Lakewood Memorial Gardens in Clinton MS.

Mr. Taylor was born in Glendora, MS on August 5, 1921. He graduated high school in Moorhead, MS and grew up in Sunflower, MS where he was a member of Sunflower Methodist Church. For all of his life Mr. Taylor was an avid outdoorsman who loved hunting and fishing with his buddies. But his true passion was golf and he played as often as he could and continued playing until the last few years of his life. To his golfing friends he was affectionately known as “Boomer.” He volunteered for active service in World War II and served until the war ended. After the war he served as a recruiter for the Mississippi Military District and then was on active duty in Korea and Vietnam. In 1945 Maury married Marie Howard Taylor and they moved to Jackson in 1946 where he was employed for many years as a Civil Engineering Technician with the Waterways Experiment Station of Vicksburg.

Preceding him in death was his father, Richard Winston Taylor and his mother, Emma Scruggs Taylor; brothers – Richard Winston Taylor, Jr. of ,Sunflower, MS; James Edwin Taylor of Leland, MS, Eugene Young Taylor of McComb, MS and nephew Richard Winston Taylor, III of Madison, MS. He is survived by his wife, Marie, a daughter Maureen Taylor Dickerson (Phil) ; two granddaughters, Paige Dickerson Yoste (John ) of Jackson, MS and Courtney Dickerson Smith (Mike) of Brentwood TN; six great grandchildren – Brynnen, Carlisle, and John Geraghty Yoste of Jackson MS and Grayton ,Shepard and Walker Smith of Brentwood, TN and a sister, Kathleen Sturtevand of Richmond, VA.

Special thanks go to the doctors, nurses, therapists and all other personnel at the State Veterans Nursing Home for their loving care and attention they gave him during his stay at the nursing home.

In lieu of flowers and in loving tribute of his grandchildren and great grandchildren whom he so adored, donations can be made to Batson Children’s Hospital.