OBITUARY - McNULTY ALFRED TAYLOR

Submitted by: Jan Redelsperger, jansperger at gmail dot com

Source: "The Daily News," Longview, Cowlitz Co., Washington, 15 Nov 1944, pg.
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AL TAYLOR, 41, LONGVIEW, IS FATALLY HURT

MCNULTY Alfred Taylor, 41, of the Catlin Apts., Longview, was fatally injured in
a logging accident near Ariel on the upper Lewis River yesterday, and died in a
local hospital last night.

Taylor, a native of Kelso, was associated in the C. A. Taylor and Sons logging
operation.  It was reported that, Taylor was struck by a cable and suffered a
serious leg fracture, severe shock and much loss of blood.  He was taken to
Ariel, where he was given emergency treatment by Dr. C. J. Hoffman of Woodland
and then rushed to a hospital in Longview.

He was active in civic affairs and was a member of the Longview Lodge of
Perfection and the Kelso Masonic Blue Lodge.  His father, the late C. A. Taylor,
was an early day logging and sawmill operator in this county and he had followed
in the Industry.

Taylor was an outstanding athlete at Kelso high school and maintained a keen
interest in sports in the community throughout the years.

Survivors include the widow Helen M. Taylor; a daughter, Jane R., and a son,
McNulty Alfred Taylor, the second; fours sisters, Mrs. Byron M. Oyster of
Tacoma, Mrs. Eugene Roehm of Seaside, Mrs. Irvin D. Smith of Seattle and Mrs. W.
G. Mullens of Longview; and six brothers, Earl of Longview, Donald of Portland
and John  B, Frank A., Bill E., and Clarence A. all in the navy.

Funeral services will be held Friday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. at the Longview
Community Church with Rev. E. J. Gebert, pastor, officiating. Interment will be
in the Kelso Odd Fellows cemetery.  The Ditlevsen Funeral Home is in charge.