Rodolphus Ray Taylor, of Campbellsville, the son of the late Willie Bill and (Lennie (Pryor) Taylor, was born November 17, 1935 in Green County, KY and departed this life on Sunday, April 28, 2024 in Elizabethtown at the Baptist Health Hardin. He was 88 years of age.
He had made a profession of faith in Christ and attended the Pleasant Run Baptist Church and was a retired custodian at the Taylor County Elementary School.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife: Lena Pearl Taylor; a daughter Karen Taylor; a son: Thomas Taylor; his brothers and sisters: Willie Mae Taylor, Catherine Shockency, Leonard, Ralph, Phillip, Ester wood and Henry Arthur Taylor and a granddaughter: Brandi Barnett; nephews: Theodore Taylor, Luther Ray Taylor and Tyron VaShawn Taylor, Jr.
He enjoyed fishing, music, dancing, gardening and friends and family.
Survivors include his children: Annetta Young, Michael Lee Hall, Martha Linton and Anthony “Tony” Taylor; six grandchildren: Lanetta (Lamont Cecil, Corie Barnett, Harold Jermaine Barnett, Sheldon Taylor (Chantini) Owens, Tyron Taylor and Marquita Taylor and a host of great and great-great grandchildren.
The funeral service will be conducted Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 1:00 P.M. at the First Baptist Church on Broadway on Campbellsville.
Interment in the Pleasant Run Cemetery in Green County.
Pastor Tyrone Johnson will be officiating
Family requests visitation after 11:00 A.M. on Saturday at the church.
L.R. Petty Funeral Home in Campbellsville in charge of arrangements.
Memorials are suggested to the funeral expense fund, which can be made at the funeral home or at the church on funeral day.