Elaine Beauchamp Taylor

© The Purcell Register

July 28, 2005

Submitted by: Mary Anneler

Funeral services for Elaine Beauchamp Taylor, 84, of Purcell will be held today (Thursday), July 28, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. at Washington Baptist Church with the Rev. Jack Sappenfield officiating. Interment will be at Lexington Cemetery under the direction of Yoakum-Damet Funeral Home in Purcell.

Mrs. Taylor died July 25, 2005.

She was born Nov. 27, 1920 in Mena, Ark., the daughter of Kelsie C. Beauchamp and Nora Dessie Maloney. She was reared in the piney woods of southeastern Oklahoma until the age of 16 when her family moved to the Fairview area. In 1939, she graduated from Wayne High School and continued her education at East Central Beauty School in Ada.

On Feb. 1, 1941, she married M.G. Taylor Jr. in Purcell.

Mrs. Taylor operated a beauty salon from her home as well as being an integral partner in Taylor’s Paint and Body Shop.

She was a lifelong member of the FF Club, a devoted member of her Sunday school class and served in many capacities in the Washington Eastern Star, receiving her 50-year pin in 2005.

Mrs. Taylor was baptized on Feb. 25, 1953.

Her hobbies included quilting, cooking and watching sports. Her love of family and friends was unequaled.

She was preceded in death by her husband, M.G. Taylor Jr.; her parents; three sisters, Irma Pate, Verna Flemons and Bettye Maynor and two brothers, K.C. Jr. and Ray Beauchamp.

Survivors include her children, Cheryl McLure and her husband, John, of Oklahoma City and Johnny Taylor and his wife, Twila, of Purcell; grandchildren, Matthew J. McLure of Chicago, Ill., and Justin G. Taylor and his wife, Brandy, and Tianna Elliott, and her husband, Roger, all of Washington; one great-grandson, Case Taylor; one brother, Dick Beauchamp and his wife, Martha, of Tulsa; a sister-in-law, Barbara Beauchamp of Darrington, Wash., and a host of loving nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Justin Taylor, Matthew McLure, Roger Elliott, Ray Flemons, Jerry Beauchamp, Troy Maynor and Don Jones.