March 15, 2003

Published 12:00 am Monday, March 17, 2003

Eleanor Dees Taylor

HAZLEHURST, Miss. Eleanor Dees Taylor died Friday, March 14, 2003, at University Medical Center. She was 85.

A resident of Hazlehurst, Miss., Ms. Taylor was a member of the Glory Choir, Kinozelian Sunday school class and Actioneers at First Baptist Church. She was a member of the Cherokee Rose Chapter of the DAR and attended Whitworth College and the University of Southern Mississippi.

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Survivors include two daughters, Linda Olsen of Columbia, S.C., and Becky Jabour of Vicksburg; four grandchildren, Amy Inman of Taylorsville, N.C., Kristin Olsen of Silver Springs, Md., Taylor Jabour of Oxford, Miss., and Lauren Jabour of Vicksburg; and a great-granddaughter.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Hazlehurst. Burial will follow at Hazlehurst Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 3 until 5 p.m. Sunday at Stringer Funeral Home in Hazlehurst.