December 17, 2011

ADAMS CENTER, N.Y.  —  James W. Taylor, 90, of Dry Hill, passed away Saturday, Dec. 17, in the emergency room of Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown.

The funeral will be 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, at Carpenter-Stoodley Funeral Home, Belleville.  Spring burial will be in Evans Mills Cemetery. Calling hours are 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Born Nov. 18, 1921, in Evans Mills, a son to James F. and Laura Mae Paul Taylor, he graduated from Adams Center High School and was a 1942 graduate for Canton ATC.  

Mr. Taylor served with the U.S. Army Air Corps as a crew chief aboard the aircraft C-47 stationed in England, Belgium, Germany and France.   

Following his honorable discharge, he returned to Northern New York, purchasing and operated a dairy farm on Rural Hill from 1952 to 1966. He went to work as a millwright with the Carpenters Union working on several projects to include the nuclear plant at Nine Mile Power Plant in Scriba, N.Y. He retired in the late 1980s. 

Mr. Taylor married Ruth E. Schallenberg on Nov. 13, 1943. She passed away March 31, 1985.  He married Frances Harrington on May 31, 1986. 

Mr. Taylor was a former member of the Belleville Central School Board of Education.  A gun enthusiast and life member of NRA.  He was an avid outdoorsman enjoying gardening, sugaring and making maple syrup, and gardening.  He loved his family and always smiled when they were around.  He was an avid reader and had a sharp command of current events; his voice would change when he told you “he loved you.” 

Besides his wife Frances, he is survived by a son and his companion, James W. II and Linda Rose, Orwell; three daughters and their husbands, Barbara and Richard Fuller, Orwell, Sherry and Steven Muscate, Webster, and Debbie and David Longacre, Jermyn, Pa.; his grandchildren, Laura Washburn, Carolyn and Thomas Wallace, Jeremy Muscate, Stephanie Cicotta, Paige and Jacqueline Taylor, James, Aaron and Caleb Longacre and Esther Axtell; 12 great-grandchildren; Frances children, Than and Peggi Harrington, Adams Center, and Kay Harrington, Ellisburg; her grandchildren, T.J., Hollis and Aubrey Harrington, Patrick and Aaron McNulty, a great-granddaughter; a brother, John R. Taylor, Adams; many nieces and nephews. 

A brother, Richard, his first wife Ruth, his parents and three nephews, Johnny, Billy and Mark Taylor, all died before him. 

Contributions may be made to the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 321 Prospect St., Watertown, NY  13601 or to the South Jefferson Rescue Squad. 

Online condolences may be made at www.carpenterstoodley.com. 

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Information provided by Carpenter-Stoodley Funeral Home and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.