Paul H. Taylor
Marriages
Anne M. Podlesnik - May 22, 1948
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 8A Death Notice - December 19, 2012
Paul H. Taylor, 94, Grand Junction, died Dec. 13, 2012, at
LaVilla Grand Care Center.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Dec. 26 at Callahan-Edfast
Mortuary, with visitation one hour before. Burial will be at Memorial
Gardens Cemetery.
Mr. Taylor was a civil engineer.
Survivors include his wife Anne; one son, James. H. of Kieki, Hawaii;
two daughters, Paula Taylor of Grand Junction and Kathleen
Dankinbring of Hutchinson, Kansas; one sister, Mary Rice of Layton,
Utah; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions to Hospice & Paliative Care of Western
Colorado, 3090B N. 12th St., Grand Junction 81506.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D - December 23, 2012
aul was born in Riverton, Utah
to George A. and Hettie (Williams)
Taylor. He attended school
in Davis County, graduating from
Utah State with a degree in Civil
Engineering. He went to work for
the Bureau of Reclamation in St.
George, Utah.
Paul enlisted in the Navy on
June 19, 1942. He was a torpedoman.
He applied for and was accepted to the Naval Reserve Mid -
shipman School at the University of Notre Dame. He graduated as a
lieutenant junior grade and then served in the See Bees in the South
Pacific. After discharge in 1946, he resumed work with the Bureau
in St. George and was transfered to the Kemmerer, Wyoming Reclamation
office.
He met Anne M. Podlesnik in Kemmerer and they were married on
May 22, 1948. Three children were born to this union, James, Kathleen,
and Paula. Paul was tranfered to the Rock Springs office in
1951. He was the Project Manager there from 1961 to 1965. He was
Bureau Representative in Cheyenne, WY for a short time and then
accepted a transfer to Grand Junction in 1966 to work on projects
that he had been trained for.
Paul retired from the Bureau in 1973, after which he took up golfing,
bowling, fishing and spent many hours on his garden.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, George E.,
Vern, and Sam Taylor; sister, Afton Morrison; grandson, Brian Snyder,
and son-in-law, John Snyder.
Paul is survived by his wife, Anne; children, James (Nancy) of Kichi,
HI; Kathleen (Mil) of Hutchinson, KS, and Paula of Grand
Junction; four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
Viewing will be held at on Wednesday, December 26, 2012, at
Callahan-Edfast Mortuary at 10:00 a.m. with a Memorial service to
follow at 11:00 a.m. Burial will take place at Memorial Gardens.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice & Palliative
Care of Western Colorado, 3090B North 12th Street, Grand Junction,
CO 81506.
