Wilfred M. Taylor Obituary

Obituary of Wilfred M. Taylor (Port Angeles Evening News, March 13, 1936)

A brilliant career as a scholar came to an end early Thursday morning when Wilfred M. Taylor, 30, son of the late A. N. Taylor an Mrs. Taylor succumbed at his home at Jamestown after an illness of 4 years.  The late Wilfred M. Taylor was born at Port Angeles Aug. 23, 1905 and died at 12:30 am Thursday, March 12. He was graduated from the Sequim High School with the class of 1923 and the University of California in 1927.
He attended the graduate school of business administration of Harvard University and received his master's degree in 1930.  At each institution of learning he attended, the late Mr. Thompson distinguished himself as a scholar . After leaving Harvard, he became connected with the Standard Oil Company of California at San Francisco and also taught English in one of the schools there.  His prospect of a brilliant and successful career was halted when he was taken ill 4 years ago and last September returned to the home of his parents at Jamestown where he resided until his death. His father, the late A. N. Taylor, pioneer school teacher of this county, preceded him in death but a few weeks.
Surviving relatives are his mother, Mrs. A. N. Taylor, Jamestown; 3 sisters, Gladys Hume and Elsie Thompson, Jamestown, and Grace Skidmore, Tacoma, and 3 brothers, Clarence W., Seattle, and Jess W. and Stanley A. Taylor, Sequeim and Port Angeles.

Submitted by Diana Withrow on November 4, 2001.

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