Arthur Woodrow Tayloe, Sr.

January 6, 1915 - June 27, 2011

01/06/1915 - 06/27/2011

Past Services

Memorial
Wednesday June 29, 2011
1:00 pm

Mr. Arthur Woodrow Tayloe, age 96 died peacefully at his home, surrounded by his children, on Monday, June 27, 2011. He was born on January 6, 1915 in Bertie County to the late William Arthur Tayloe and Ethel Burden Tayloe. He graduated from Aulander High School and upon graduation attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was married to the late Marie Worthington Tayloe for forty-nine wonderful years. Woodrow was a very loving and devoted husband and father. He was a member of Aulander Baptist Church serving as a deacon. Woodrow was a farmer, merchant owner and community leader for many years in Aulander and the Roanoke-Chowan area. He was a charter member of Aulander Ruritan Club, Aulander Masonic Lodge, and Ahoskie Kiwanis Club. He has also served on the Aulander Town Council, Bank of Aulander Board, Chowan Board of Trustees, Wachovia Bank and Trust Board, Roanoke-Chowan Hospital Board of Trustees and Roanoke-Chowan Hospital Foundation and Davie Lodge in Ahoskie. Woodrow spent his later years enjoying flowers and his love of reading.

Preceding him in death are his wife and parents, as well as his brother, William Ennis Tayloe and daughter, Elaine Tayloe Kirkland.

Survivors include his son, Arthur Woodrow Tayloe, Jr. and wife Lyn of Myrtle Beach, SC, daughter, Mary Jane Tayloe of Aulander, NC; grandchildren, William Scott Kirkland and wife Anne of Raleigh, NC, Stephen Ennis Kirkland and wife Sarah of Norfolk, VA, William Arthur Tayloe, II and wife Kari of Pawleys Island, SC and Courtney Lyn Tayloe of Pawleys Island, SC., one great grandchild, Laine Elizabeth Kirkland of Raleigh, NC, one nephew, John Richard Taylor of Virginia Beach, VA, and Dorothy Sessoms.

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Catherine Cheek Connor
11 years ago

So sorry for your loss. I just found about Woodrow’s death yesterday. He was a wonderful man and lived a remarkable life. You have my sympathy

Cathy Connor (his second cousin)

Bunny Brady
11 years ago

Aulander will never be the same with the passing of Mr. Woodrow and all the others before him who helped to make us who we are. My thoughts and prayers are with you and the family. Mary Jane, I hope to see you when I get back to NC around christmas.

With warm thoughts, Bunny

Wendy Whiting (Early)
11 years ago

Actually going to Aulander this weekend of the 4th–has been a long time since I’ve been home. Mr. Woodrow ( & Miss Marie)

They were always so pleasant and sweet~~ I am sure Aulander will never be the same now~~

Margaret P. Krueger
11 years ago

To Mary Jane and all of

Woodrow’s family I send

my most sincere condolences.

My late husband, Art and I

enjoyed a visit with Woodrow

and MJ a few years ago and I hold that memory dear.

God bless you all. Pegge