Helen N. Taylor

Funeral Saturday July 21, 201211:00 amMudd-Veach Funeral Home (Bowling Green)VisitationSaturday July 21, 20129:00 am - 11:00 amMudd-Veach Funeral Home (Bowling Green) Helen N. Taylor, mother of Karma Gaw passed away Saturday July 14, 2012 at the Moore Pike Nursing Home in Bowling Green. Funeral services will be Saturday July 21, 2012 at 11:00 A.M. at the Mudd-Veach Funeral Home in Bowling Green with Rev. Mike Gillen officiating. Burial will be in the Fairmount Cemetery in Middletown. Visitation will be Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until time of service. Helen was born on January 8, 1922 in Troy the daughter of Henry Harmon and Mabel Ellen ( Witt) Norton. She grew up in rural Pike County and attended the Ramsey Creek and Paynesville schools. Helen married Leon Marvin Taylor on May 9, 1946 in Hannibal. They moved to Colorado, west of Denver made their home for 30 years before returning to the Cyrene and Bowling Green area in 1974. Mrs. Taylor was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Bowling Green and the Rebekah’s. She loved country music, the St. Louis Cardinals attending games in all three stadiums in St. Louis, bowling and participating in tournaments, sewing dresses for her daughters, latch hooking. Helen was an adventurer taking a hot air balloon ride at age 80 and had many friends in Colorado and Missouri. She loved to travel the United States spending time with her children, grandchildren and camping with the family. Mrs Taylor is survived by a son Marvin Taylor and wife Jennifer, Ft. Collins, CO.; five daughters Kitty Galley and husband Jerry, Blanding, UT., Kathy Stevens and husband Mike, Littleton, CO., Karen Anderson and husband Al, Grimes, IA., Kay Tietz and husband Chuck, Dumont, CO., and Karma Gaw and husband Ed, Bowling Green and one stepdaughter Kathleen Fabrio of O’Fallon and many grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers, one sister, two stepsons and 3 great grandchildren. The grandsons will serve as pallbearers and the other grandchildren will serve as honorary pallbearers. Memorials made be made to the Pike County Home Health and Hospice.