John Irven Taylor

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Services for John Irven Taylor, 63, will be Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the Presbyterian church in Elk City with burial in Fairview Cemetery, Elk City. Mr. Taylor was born January 20, 1902 in Crawford, Oklahoma and passed away April 27, 1965 in Oklahoma City.

John Irven Taylor was the first president of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau and served in that capacity 12 years. He resigned at the time of the death of his father, John Luther Taylor in 1957, to devote his time to the administration of the estate.

Later he was assistant director of legislation for the National Farm Bureau in Washington, D.C.

He operated a ranch at Mountain View where he resided for a number of years. Later he moved to Elk City. For the past few years he had resided in Oklahoma City where he was manager of the Nichols Feed and Fertilizer Company.

He was a 32nd degree mason and for years was captain of an outstanding Scottish Rites drill team of Elk City.

He was a member of the Presbyterian church.

Survivors include his wife, Joy W. of Oklahoma City; two sons, Jim of Berlin, in Roger Mills county; Joe of Mountain View; seven grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. Jene Newman of Houston, Texas; and Mrs. Ed Hayhow of Hillsdale, Michigan.

It was his request and that of the family that memorial gifts be made to the Cancer Fund.