ZELMA WRIGHT TAYLOR

February 24, 1912 – January 11, 2008

Zelma Wright Taylor, age 95, passed away peacefully at home January 11, 2008. 

Born near Elgin in Bastrop County, Texas on February 24, 1912, she was the daughter of Barney E. and Mae McClintock Wright.  Upon moving south of Robstown in 1917, they became one of Nueces County’s pioneer farm families.  She graduated from Robstown High School and attended Texas A&I College until the Depression sent her home.  She met her future husband of 52 years, Johnny Taylor, at his job at Boucher’s Drugstore in Robstown, and they married on October 31, 1932.  She and Johnny raised three children and moved to Salado, Texas upon retirement in 1979, where she lived for the next twenty-four years.  She lived in Lewisville near her sons during the last few years of her life.  Zelma was an accomplished artist and author, but she dreamed of acting.  In her later years, she realized those dreams when she performed in the annual Table Rock Festival production “Salado Legends”, and was an extra in the 1995 film starring Robert Duvall, “Stars Fell on Henrietta”.  She was an active member of the Robstown Art Colony, and at the time of her death, the bible study she had written during the past twenty years was being published.  She had been a member of the First Christian Church in Corpus Christi, and later in Temple.  Zelma was a friend to all, she was loved by all who knew her, and she was an inspiration and mentor to her children.  We will greatly miss her and doing things “her way”.  She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brother Horace E. Wright, and her daughter Zanda M. Boone.  She is survived by her son Mike Taylor and his wife Cheri of Highland Village, Texas, her son Lance Taylor and his wife Mary Jane of The Colony, Texas, her son-in-law Elmer E. Boone, her grandchildren Tommy Boone, Sabrina Stuckey and her husband Parker, John Taylor, Lauren Callahan and her husband Kevin, Michelle Taylor, and Creed Taylor.  Visitation will be Sunday evening from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., January 13th, with services at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 14th at Sawyer-George Funeral Home.  Graveside services will follow with burial at Robstown Memorial Park