Vera Mae Dillard Taylor, 79, of Tifton died Monday, August 13, 2012, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 15, 2012, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Mickey Lindsey will officiate with burial to follow in Lawrence Cemetery. Her nephews, Charlie Dillard, Charlie Hutchinson, Anthony Clemens, Josh Taylor, Eddie Taylor and Wayne Taylor will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Mrs. Taylor was born on November 8, 1932 in Tifton and was the daughter of Charlie Dillard and Beulah Mae Coker Dillard, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Calvin Dennis Taylor; and two sisters, Helen McCann and Betherine Ray. She was retired from Avondale Mills/Strickland Mills and was a member of New Bethel Baptist Church in Tifton. She had lived in Tifton her entire life.
Mrs. Taylor is survived by three sons and two daughters-in-law, Charles Dennis and Cindy Taylor of Augusta, Jimmy Loyd and Dorothy Taylor of Nashville and Donald Leroy Taylor of Tampa, Florida; one daughter, Glenda F. Harper of Tifton; three brothers and sisters-in-law, Willie and Annie Pearl Dillard of Tifton, David and Julia Dillard of Lenox and William and Charlotte Dillard of Nashville; four sisters and three brothers-in-law, Lillian and Harold Lee Walters, Jr. of Omega, Nell Prickett of Nashville, Sara Jane and Dinky Crosby of Nashville and Margaret and J.C. Arnold of Nashville; eleven grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.