War has come close to the mother of Pvt. Albert B. Taylor when she had a recent message from the War Department stating that he had been killed in France on Nov. 11th, Armistice Day.
Pvt. Taylor was the oldest son of Mrs. Bessie Lupo Taylor and the late Archie B. Taylor of Nashville, and a grandson of the late Mr. And Mrs. J. M. Lupo of this city. Prior to his induction into the army he attended the Douglas High School and was then employed by the Hom-Ond store. He has been in service in the Infantry for about a year and had not been overseas long when his life was sacrificed on the field of battle.
His mother had just had a letter from him, telling her of life in the fox holes and how he prayed for an early end of the war. He made a request for chocolate candy and fried chicken in his Christmas box and requested that it be large enough to divide with some of his buddies. He was in the first battle on October 26 and at that time captured a German and took some money from him.
Just a boy when he left home, but he will sleep on foreign soil just an many of the world?s finest boys will do?the price of freedom from Nazism for Americans. His only brother is James Lang Taylor, a student in the ninth grade of Douglas High School.
A military funeral will be held in Douglas next Sunday morning at 11:00 for A. B. Taylor, who died Nov. 11, 1994 in Metz, France while in the service of his county.
Young Taylor was 21 years of age at the time of his death. He was serving in the 80th Division, Company C, 318th Infantry.
Born in Jacksonville, Fla., he is the son of Archie B. Taylor and Mrs. Bessie Lupo Taylor.
Last rites will be conducted at Sims Funeral Home with the Rev. O. C. Mingledorff and Rev. B. E. Donehoo officiating. A military escort from the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars will participate in the services. Burial will be in the City Cemetery.
In addition to his parents, the deceased is survived by one brother, J. L. Taylor; four half brothers, P. T. Nellie, Chester and Marvin Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.
Sims Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements.
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