Rev. J.W. “Buddy” Taylor, 83, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Monday, October 5, 2020, at his residence.
Funeral services will be held 1 PM, Wednesday, October 7, 2020, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Fitzgerald, with the Rev. Tommy Land, Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in the Bethlehem Cemetery in Ben Hill County, Georgia. The family will receive friends from 11 AM until the service hour at the funeral home on Wednesday.
Mr. Taylor was born October 1, 1937, in Abbeville, Georgia, to the late Ernest & Gladys Lorelle Lancaster Taylor. He lived in the community all of his life and worked for Walker Tire and Battery and Modern Textiles for 28 years. Mr. Taylor was ordained in 1972 and served several Baptist churches including Anderson Memorial, Arp, New Hope, Englewood and Antioch. He was a member of Englewood Baptist Church.
He is survived by his daughter, Betty Jean Young & Tommy of Fitzgerald; grandchildren: Elizabeth Ann Stevens and her husband Robert, Crystal Michelle Drury and her husband James, and Johnathon Taylor; great-grandchildren: Austin Stevens, Scott Stevens, and Laurie Ann Drury; and a great-great-grandson, Aybell Danlee Stevens. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 59 years, Joyce Peacock Taylor; a son, Dennis Lawrence Taylor; a great-granddaughter, Amberlynn Brooke Drury; and a sister, Viola Hamilton.