Ms. Rebecca O. Taylor

TAYLOR, Ms. Rebecca O. - Age 69, passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at Regency of Grand Blanc-Grand Blanc, MI. Family hour 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at Word of Life Christian Church, 460 W. Atherton Rd., with funeral service commencing at 2:00 p.m. Pastor George Wilkinson officiating .Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 1:00 p.m. Wednesday. After which, Mrs. Taylor will be taken to Shaffer & Collins Funeral home, 247 W. 6th Street, Yazoo City, MS 39194. Interment Gleenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, MS. Mrs. Taylor will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd., and may be viewed from 12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Tuesday. Ms. Rebecca Olivia McGee-Taylor was born in March 19, 1947 in Jonestown, Mississippi, the eleventh child born to Ollie and Mary Magdalene (Woods) McGee. It is said that Rebecca was a beautiful new born baby; that she looked like Lena Horne. She grew up on Stewart's Ridge Rd., on her grandfather Isaac Woods’ land, in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Rebecca accepted Christ at a young age, under the tutelage of Rev. Smith at Tobeka Baptist Church. She graduated from Yazoo City Training School in 1965. After spending some time working for K-Mart in Pontiac, Michigan. Rebecca returned to Mississippi to attend Coahoma Junior College in Clarksdale where she earned an Associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education in 1969. While attending Coahoma, she met and married Edgar E. Taylor of Louise, MS and to that union was born 2 sons and twin daughters. Rebecca and her young family relocated from Jackson, MS to Flint, MI in February of 1973 where she remained a resident for the last 43 years. She was primarily a house wife, but worked as a Teacher’s Aide in Flint, Michigan for a season. Rebecca was creative and talented. She was an amazing Interior Decorator. She could purchase anything from the Goodwill or The Salvation Army, place it in her home, and have you believing that she spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars on the item. Hospitality was her gift and she loved serving people in her home. She made Martha Stewart her primary claim to fame and self-appointed title was Poetic Messenger. Her poems were the alternative bible study. In other words, give her scripture and a topic and she will crank out spiritually convicting poems. She regularly wrote poems and called herself a Poetic Messenger. At the time of her passing she was in the process of writing her first book of poems titled “A Rose For A Lady.” Her manuscript was complete and ready to go to publishers. Rebecca loved life, her grandchildren and her brand new great-granddaughter. Ms. Rebecca Olivia McGee-Taylor leaves to cherish her memory: twin daughters, Betria H. (Allen Hamlet) Taylor and DeTria H. Taylor both of Flint, MI; son, Paris B. (Stephanie) Taylor of Houston, TX; five granddaughters, Dasia S. Taylor, Empreia Z. Taylor and Sha’Rayha Gillylen of Flint, MI, and Ameera M. Henry and Zaria R. Taylor of Houston, TX; two grandsons, Isiah Taylor and Allen Hamlet, Jr.; great-granddaughter, DeAsia S. Weaver, all of Flint, MI; seven siblings, Marian (Roosevelt) Blackmon of Yazoo City, MS, Charlene Dear of Chicago, IL, Edward (Betty Jo) McGee of Yazoo City, MS, Evelyn (Aarion) Johnson of Kansas City, MO, Thelma D. McGee of Yazoo City, MS; Carlton McGee of Detroit, MI and Varonia McGee of Yazoo City, MS; special nephew, Carlos “Four” McGee of Yazoo City, MS; god-daughters, Asia Fulgham of Atlanta, GA, Cassandra Bowen and Esther Moore, both of Flint, MI; a host of other relatives and friends including special friends, Ms. Joyce Benton, Mrs. Helen Hayman, Mrs. Janie Mae Cheeks and Attorney Douglas J. Callahan. Ms. McGee-Taylor was preceded in death by her infant son, Edgar E. Taylor, Jr.; parents, Reverend Ollie & Mary Magdalene (Woods) McGee; six siblings, Samuel McGee, Winfield McGee, Sr., Helen Jean Jackson, Emma E. Horton, Ollie L. McGee, Jr. and baby sister, Valerie Ann McGee; nieces, Tyrethesia Dear-Brown, Jacqueline McGee-Carter, Marilyn McGee, and Rosalund Blackmon-Tennie; nephews, Donte’ T. Dear, Terry Lee McGee and Winfield McGee, Jr.

Ms. Rebecca O. Taylor

March 19, 1947 - May 11, 2016