Grant Taylor
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - August 13, 1948
BURIAL SERVICES FOR GRANT TAYLOR.
Rev. Paul A. SHIELDS conducted graveside funeral rites for the late Grant TAYLOR last Thursday afternoon, in the Gypsum cemetery.
The services were held in the presence of a group of long time friends of Grant TAYLOR who took his life, by drowning in the Eagle river the last of May. The body was recovered from the river last Tuesday.
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - May 28, 1948
GYPSUM MAN LAST SEEN NEAR EAGLE RIVER.
Grant Taylor, 81-ycar-old Gypsum resident, is thought to have committed suicide by drowning late Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Taylor had mailed personal valuables and money to a nephew in Meeker earlier in the day and on more than one occasion had hinted at taking his own life. He was last seen near Gypsum walking towards the Eagle river by Wm. Schumm and Slim Straws around 4 p. m. Wednesday. Earlier in the day he had told friends he was going to jump in the river, but the remark was not taken seriously as he had made other such statesince his return from Glenwood Springs a few weeks ago, where he Jiad been living during the winter under the care of a doctor, with most of the time spent in a hospital. Mr. Taylor had long been a resident of Gypsum and owned a home there, which he sold to Mrs. Cora Eaton after his return from Glenwood a few weeks ago. Mrs. Taylor died in August, 1922, and since that time he had maintained his home in Gypsum. Because of the swollen Eagle river, it was impossible for authorities to begin an immediate search for the body, but there was little question that Mr. Taylor had drowned.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 11 - August 5, 1948
