Katie Lee Taylor, age 86, of Smyrna, Tennessee, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, September 15, 2025, at the Smyrna Care Center of Smyrna, Tennessee.
She was born on February 7, 1939, in Murphysboro, Illinois; the daughter of Glenn and Lillian Hayse. She married Bobby Joe Taylor on December 24, 1955, and he preceded her in death on February 7, 2003. Together they shared forty-seven years of marriage.
Mrs. Taylor was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church of South Chicago Heights, Illinois where she was a former Sunday School Teacher. She loved her church and enjoyed worshipping with her church family until her health failed her.
She enjoyed taking care of her grand babies, attending church, teaching Sunday School, and her daughter said, “while attending church she always had a baby in her lap.”
Katie is survived by a daughter Jacqueline “Jacki” Blanton-Boone and husband Jerry of LaVergne, TN; two sons: Terry Taylor of Peotone, IL, and Tim Taylor and wife Kim of Big Fork, MN; nine grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; one great-great-great-grandchild; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a son Michael Glenn Taylor, one brother and six sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, September 20, 2025, at the Leffler Funeral Home of Benton, Illinois. Burial will follow in the Masonic & Odd Fellows Cemetery of Benton. Visitation will be held from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saturday at the Leffler Funeral Home of Benton.
Memorial contributions in memory of Katie, may be made to the family.
To leave online condolences to the family, or to share memories of Katie, visit www.lpfuneralhome.com.
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