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DATE: TUESDAY, March 3, 1992                   TAG: 9203030087
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SPENCER                                 LENGTH: Medium

OBIT TAYLOR, J.

TAYLOR, JAMES C. SPENCER - James Carson Spencer, age 68, died Monday March 2, 1992 at Martinsville Hospital after a long illness. He was born in Montebello, Virginia. February 5, 1924, the son on the Rev. Robert Manson Taylor and Madge Pratt Taylor. He was a graduate of Spencer Penn High School and received college instruction during his military service including Davis and Elkins College, Elkin, W.Va. He served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force from December 3, 1943 to June 27, 1948. He entered the Air Force at age 18, December 3, 1942 as an aviation cadet trainee. He was classified as an aviation cadet in June of 1943, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Army June 27, 1944 and with the aeronautical training as a pilot. He was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Army in 1946 and he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the regular Air Force February 5, 1945. He was promoted to First Lieutenant February 5, 1948. During his military career he served in World War II, summer and winter of 1945 with the 7th Bomb Group and the 9th Bomb Squadron, Haevyo, as a B24 pilot and co-pilot. He flew sixteen missions over the Himalayans to the interior of China while stationed in Tezzpur, India. His military awards include the China War Memorials Medal and Chinese Air Force Pilot Wings for distinguished personal and professional achievement in military aviation. He was honorably discharged from service June 18, 1948. Afterwards he became a newspaper writer and editor working on a number of newspapers including those in Cheyenne, Wyo., Bakersfield, Calif., and those in Va. and N.C. He was associated with Dr. Cort Flint in the publication of Christian Literature. In 1974 he began a twelve year career as a specialist assistant of the Fifth District Representative of Steven L. Neal of N.C. He retired in 1987 after undergoing two serious cardio vascular operations after returning to his home in Route 1, Spencer. He was a member of Mayo Baptist Church where he formerly served as a sunday school teacher. He was a past president of N.C. Democratic Club and was a leader of the Democratic Prayer Breakfast Meeting, Washington, D.C. He is survived by, in addition to his mother of the home, one sister, Mrs. James Irene Martin, Route 1, Spencer; two brothers, Robert L. Taylor, Sr., Fieldale; William A. Taylor, Bassett; three nephews, Dr. Robert L. (Bobby) Taylor, Jr., Eping, N.H.; William A. (Billy) Taylor, Jr., Jersey City, N.J.; Richard Manson Taylor, Houston, Texas. Funeral will be conducted Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at Mayo Baptist Church, Route 1, Spencer by Rev. Bruce Hunter with eulogy by the Honorable Steven L. Neal. Funeral will be in the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers, family suggests that memorials be made to Mayo Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, Route 1, Spencer. Family will receive friends Tuesday at Stone Funeral Chapel from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Arrangements by Stone Funeral Home. 


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