Ernestine Powell Taylor

MOTHER ERNESTINE POWELL TAYLOR WAS BORN TO THE LATE JOHNNY AND MARY POWELL IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY, NC, ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1931. MOTHER TAYLOR DEPARTED HER EARTHLY LIFE ON FEBRUARY 22, 2013, AT THE AGE OF 81 TO BE WITH HER HEAVENLY FATHER.
ERNESTINE POWELL MARRIED GEORGE ERVIN TAYLOR ON SEPTERMBER 27, 1947. TO THIS UNION 13 CHILDREN WERE BORN. MOTHER TAYLOR DEVOTED HER LIFE TO SERVING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR OVER 57 YEARS. SHE JOINED STRAIGHT GATE HOLINESS CHURCH IN 1955, WHERE THE LATE BISHOP WILLIE J. THOMPSON SERVED AS PASTOR. IN 1994, MOTHER TAYLOR BECAME A MEMBER OF REFUGE ONE WAY CHURCH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (COOLJC) UNDER THE LATE BISHOP A. MICHAEL DIXON, AND CURRENTLY DR. OSBIN CURRIN. UNTIL HER HEALTH BEGAN TO FAIL IN THE FALL OF 2012, MOTHER TAYLOR SERVED AS THE COOLJC EASTERN DISTRICT MISSIONARY PRESIDENT, PASTOR’S AIDE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT, AND A CHURCH MOTHER OF REFUGE ONE WAY. MOTHER TAYLOR LOVED THE LORD AND SERVINE THE LORD. SHE CARED DEEPLY FOR HER FAMILY, HER CHURCH FAMILY, AND FRIENDS. MOTHER TAYLOR WAS AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL AND TRULY LOVED AND CARED ABOUT EVERYONE; ALWAYS WITH A SMILE AND WIT. ONE OF MOTHER TAYLOR’S FAVORITE SCRIPTURE WAS PHILIPPIAMS 4:13 “I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENS ME.”
MOTHER ERNESTINE TAYLOR WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY: HER HUSBAND, GEORGE ERVIN TAYLOR; THREE SONS – MICHAEL TAYLOR, WILL ROGER TAYLOR, AND NATHANIEL TAYLOR; FIVE SISTERS; ADA PERRY, LIZZIE HUNTER, DAISY PRINCE, GENEVA GRIFFIN, AND MABLE HALL; AND TWO BROTHERS – JAMES POWELL (BILL) AND AARON POWELL.
MOTHER TAYLOR’S MEMORY LIVES AND THRIVES ON IN THE HEARTS OF HER: 10 CHILDREN – MARY JOHNSON, GEORGE TAYLOR JR., SHIRLEY JOHNSON, SHARON DICKENS (RICKY) AND DANNY TAYLOR, ALL OF WHITAKERS, NC; DORIS T. FUNCHESS (JAMES), NANCY SCOTT (WAYNE), AND TILITHA TAYLOR OF ALL OF ROCKY MOUNT, NC; RICHARD E. TAYLOR (DORA) OF HIGH POINT, NC; AND LINDA J. TAYLOR OF UPPER MARLBORO, MD; 28 GRANDCHILDREN; 44 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, EIGHT GREAT GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; TWO SISTERS, NELLIE THORNTON OF ROCKY MOUNT, NC, AND LILLIE MAE NICHOLSON OF WHITAKERS, NC; THREE DAUGHTER-IN-LAWS; A HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, AND OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, INCLUDING HER BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST. THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT 1PM FRIDAY AT CHURCH OF GOD OF DELIVERANCE, WITH DR. OSBIN CURRIN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE AT ROCKY MOUNT MEMORIAL PARK. ARRANGEMENTS ARE BY HILLIARD FUNERAL HOME.
GOD SAW THE ROAD WAS GETTING ROUGHER
HE KNEW YOU HAD YOUR SHARE,
HE TENDERLY CLOSED YOUR WEARY EYES,
AND TOOK YOU IN HIS CARE
NOT BEING ABLE TO SAY GOOD-BYE,
WILL ALWAYS BRING REGRET;
BUT THE ONES WHO LOVED YOU DEARLY,
ARE THE ONES WHO WON’T FORGET…..
LOVE, THE FAMILY