September 22, 1920 ~ August 21, 2015
Robert Gordon Taylor, 94, entered eternal rest on August 21, 2015. He was born in Newark, New Jersey to Raymond W. and Ruth (Bea) Taylor, the third of six children. He married his wife of 50 years, Ruth Frances Kerrigan, on April 15, 1942, in Short Hills, New Jersey.
An Army World War II veteran, he served in the 59th and 28th Signal Companies installing front line telephone communications. He received five battle stars for Normandy, Northern France (Battle of the Bulge) Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, unit citation, meritorious award, good conduct medal with bar of two knots, French citation and European campaign bar.
He was Commander of VFW Post 7683, Springfield, New Jersey from 1972 - 1977 and given life membership by the Post before moving to Oklahoma.
Before WWII, he was an ambulance driver for Overlook Hospital, Summit, New Jersey; afterwards, he was an auto mechanic and retired as Shop Foreman from Dub Richardson Ford in 1987. From then he worked at Cedar Valley Golf Club, first as cart attendant then as starter on weekends, holidays, and tournaments until the traffic accident on 7/20/2015.
He was an avid bowler and golfer - high game 277, two holes-in-one in 1988. He was President of the Summer Retirees League at Boulevard Lanes in Edmond. He crocheted many afghans in patterns of his own design. He was a very loving father, uncle, and grandfather.
He was preceded in death by one stillborn son, Gordon John Taylor, his parents, his wife, his step-mother Evelyn G. Taylor, brothers, Raymond (Pete) and Albert William Taylor, and sister Marjorie Agnes Wilt.
He is survived by his daughter, Ruth Biggs and husband James, three step-grandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren; brother Howard H. Taylor; sister Patricia A. Reihing; sister-in-law Jane H.R. Taylor, and many nieces and nephews.
Traditional cremation services will be held Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 2:00 PM at Smith Memorial Chapel, Guthrie, with a cremation to follow. Services are under the direction of Smith-Gallo Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to: Veterans of Foreign Wars, 406 W. 34th Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
or www.VFW.org/contribute; Disabled American Veterans, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301,
or www.dav.org; Paralyzed Veterans of America, 7 Millbrook Rd., Wilton, NH 03086, or www.Support Veterans.org.