Richard E. Taylor Obituary

He worked at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, GA. He was employed there probably 12 years. He loved his job and coworkers and hardly laid out till he started to get sick. Of what I know of my dad before my time is that he was in the Navy and served in Vietnam with his brother Harry. He married a woman named Trisha and they had a son named Jason who died after a few days and he adopted another named Renee whos mother took her back after a month or so and he just always wanted to have children. Then he met my mother and he was so excited about my arrival he sold his beloved Harley just so he could pay for the bills of the hospital. My dad was so proud to have his first child and then two years later they had Larry. My dad was so loving and caring, he did anything he could just to keep us happy and with the best things possible. I love my dad so much, I found an IOU he was made sometime within the past 3 years. He had said he owed me to walk me down the aisle and now I guess he will never get to do that and that is really heartbreaking to me. I always expected my dad would be there for that. I am currently engaged and I was planning a wedding, with him in it. He was very excited about his granddaughter whom he still and never will get to see personally. He was goin to ride with me to the hospital to help keep me calm through my contractions. My due date is November 3, 2003, he passed away on October 27, 2003. Less than 2 weeks early. I thought he was fine, I talked to him that very night. We offered to take him out to eat, he said for us to go ahead he had already eaten but he was ready for Kelcei to get here. The next day I carried about my day till 3'o clock we had the call that he was dead. Something I indefinetly had NEVER expected. I guess you kinda take advantage of the things you have in life that God gives you and you never think you will lose those things, but beware, death shows no mercy. Death comes to anyone and everyone at anytime and doesn't care what the circumstances are. So take the time out each day to tell the ones you love how you feel and spend all the time you can with them, because you never know when "tomorrow may never come". I am happy the last time I saw my dad a week before his death, I hugged him and told him I loved him. He was helping me to parallel park because I had to take my license test and he seemed so fine. We had just completed DUI school together, he seemed SO GOOD. Like he had another 30 years left in him, little did I know, he only had about 3 weeks.

Richard E. Taylor Obituary

December 24, 1947 - October 27, 2003