James Taylor

March 21, 1933 – January 24, 2023

JAMES EGERTON TAYLOR, aged 89, of Rose Hill Plantation, St. George. Director of Flower Galaxy Inc; Former Director of Detco Motors; Former Captain of Central Cricket Club; First President of Florapex – with respect to the commercial production of anthurium lilies and Former Organist.
Devoted Husband of Barbara Antonette Taylor.
Father of Carita Davis, Jaime Gittens and Christopher Smith.
Stepfather of Michelle Cave, Dr. Claire Durant and Ruth Sobers.
Brother of Wilma Skeete, the late Hilda Fletcher and Gilbert Taylor.
Grandfather of Joshua Gittens.
Brother-in-law of the Forbes family.
Relative of the Phillips, Bolden, Hinds, Wellington, Williams, Burrows, Walcott, Forde, Crick, Scantlebury, Thompson and Hollaway families.
Friend of Sir David and Lady Simmons, the Graham, Hope, Agbowu, Bowman and Venner families of St. Vincent, Kirton, Hoyte, Greenidge, Ifill, Jordan and Wilkinson families, the Choirs of the churches of St. Matthew, St. John the Baptist with the Jesus the Good Shepherd and Paynes Bay Methodist.
The homegoing celebration will be held on Saturday, February 18, 2023 at the St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, Thorpes, St. James, where relatives and friends are asked to meet for the tributes beginning at 9:25 a.m., followed by the service at 10:00 a.m. The cortege will then proceed to St. James Cemetery for the interment. Flowers may be sent to Lyndhurst Funeral Home no later than 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. The body of the late James Egerton Taylor will repose in the Colin Parkinson Memorial Chapel, Lyndhurst Funeral Home on Friday, February 17, 2023 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

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