Edith Madeline Taylor

Edith Madeline White Taylor, 93, of Asheville, passed Wednesday, January 4, 2006, at Memorial Mission Hospital, after a brief illness. Born January 8, 1912, to the late Hubert Young White and Florence Allison White, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles E. Taylor, who passed away December, 1976, and by brothers Hubert and Ralph White of Asheville and sister Elizabeth Sluder of Leicester. She is survived by a daughter, Betty McCulloch and her husband Harry of Asheville; sons, Bobby Taylor and his wife, Elizabeth, of Leicester, Charles Taylor and his wife, Carolyn, of Asheville, Jack Taylor of Leicester, and David Taylor and his wife Terry, of Asheville; two sisters, Thelma White Rector and Dorothy White Jones of Asheville; one brother, Carl White of Asheville, and eleven grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She was a loving and compassionate mother and grandmother. She loved her church family at Macedonia Baptist Church, where she was the oldest member. She had many loving friends at the West Asheville Council on Aging. “God saw you getting tired; Getting well was not to be, So He put His arms around you, And whispered, come with Me. We watched you suffer, And we watched you fade away. Although we love you dearly, We could not make you stay. Heaven’s gates opened, and God’s newest angel came through.” Funeral services will be at 3:00 p.m. Saturday at Macedonia Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. James H. Johnson and the Rev. Larry Sprinkle officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Her grandsons will be pallbearers. Her family will receive friends from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue and at other times will be at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, David and Terry, 421 Macedonia Road. Memorials may be made to Macedonia Baptist Church, 1468 Jenkins Valley Road, Alexander, NC 28701, or to MANNA Food Bank, 627 Swannanoa River Road, Asheville, NC 28805.