NAME: ROYCE LEE ROY TAYLOR, SR., AGE 57, LONGTIME CANEY-ATOKA AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: MAY 26, 1946 TO FRED WARREN AND LEWRANIE (BRAMMER) TAYLOR ON THE TAYLOR HOMEPLACE NEAR CANEY, OK. PASSED AWAY: EARLY MONDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 2003 AT HIS HOME NEAR CANEY, OK. AGE: 57 YEARS 1 MONTH AND 18 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ROY ATTENDED SCHOOL AT CANEY AND WAS A 1964 GRADUATE.

MARRIED: PATRICIA WEBB ON JULY 3, 1971 AT VOCA BAPTIST CHURCH IN CANEY, OK.

OCCUPATION: A FARMER AND RANCHER HIS ENTIRE LIFE. IN 1989 ROY AND HIS FAMILY WERE NAMED FARM FAMILY OF THE YEAR BY THE FARM SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH. ROY SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE ATOKA COUNTY FARM SERVICE AGENCY COMMITTEE AND FARM BUREAU FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. HE WAS ALSO MASTER MASON OF THE CADDO LODGE # 3.

SURVIVED BY

WIFE: PAT TAYLOR OF THE HOME NEAR CANEY, OK.

CHILDREN: JENNIFER LEANN TAYLOR OF CANEY, OK. ROYCE LEE TAYLOR, JR. AND WIFE LISA OF CANEY, OK.

TWIN SISTER: JOY SMITH AND HUSBAND PETE OF RATTAN, OK.

SISTER: JEAN TOWNSEND AND HUSBAND GROVER OF CALERA, OK.

BROTHER: WARREN TAYLOR AND WIFE HILGA OF DALLAS, TX.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: FRED AND LEWRANIE TAYLOR LOVING STEP-FATHER: ARCHIE SWINFORD

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2003 AT 10:00 AM. PLACE OF SERVICES: MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH ~ CANEY, OK.

INTERMENT: CADDO CEMETERY ~ CADDO, OK.

OFFICIATING: DR. CLARENCE HUNTER. ASSISTING: REV. JEREMY PARHAM.

CASKETBEARERS: GARY LAWSON, GARY BAUGHER, PAUL RHINES, GARY DODD, JOE CORBETT, CLEM TRENT.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: G. L. LAWSON, BILLY HADDOCK, J. C. AMMONS, JAMES TAYLOR, PAUL PARHAM, TRAVIS HAMPTON.