PARTRIDGE – Louise D. Taylor, 94, died Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, at Mennonite Friendship Communities, South Hutchinson. She was born May 11, 1922, in rural Glen Elder, to William and Ethel (Darling) Brown.

Louise graduated from Glen Elder High School with a teaching certificate in 1940, where she also lettered in basketball all four years. Louise was a homemaker, and along with her husband Charles, the owner/operator of the Taylor Hardware Store in Partridge. She also did babysitting and was a dancer and instructor at the Dorothy Woods School of Dance. Louise was a follower of Christ and also Past President of the Social Order of the Beauceant and Past Worthy Matron of the Acacia Chapter 37 of the Order of the Eastern Star.

On May 11, 1940, she married Charles A. Taylor, in Stockton. He died Nov. 12, 1989. Louise is survived by: sons, Adrian and wife Nancy of Buhler, Jerome "Jerry" and wife Jean of Sylvia, Raymond and wife Sherrie of Sun City, Arizona, Timothy and wife Carol of Moore, Oklahoma; daughter, Charlene Taylor and husband Richard Piper of Overland Park; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Louise was preceded in death by: her parents; sisters, Cletus Cullum, Golda Johnson, and Roberta Kroker; brothers, Raymond, Rollie, and LeRoy; and half-brother, Elmer Darling.

Cremation has taken place. Memorial service will be 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, at Elliott Chapel, Hutchinson, with Minister Raymond Taylor officiating. Private family inurnment will take place in High Prairie Cemetery, Glen Elder.

Friends may sign the memorial book from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at Elliott Mortuary. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in care of Elliott Mortuary, 1219 N. Main, Hutchinson, KS 67501.