The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. TAYLOR AT 2:30 O'CLOCK TODAY Widely Known Religious and Social Worker Dies
 Suddenly Y. w. C. A. SECRETARY FOR NUMBER OF YEARS Was Friend and Intimate of Hundreds of Working Girls-Mrs. L. C.
 Branscomb Pays Her an
 Eloquent Tribute

Mrs. Mabelle Sloss Cecil Taylor ageo s7 years. for years a prominent social and religious worker, died at 5:30 O clock yesterday morning in local iniirmary following brief illness The sudder death of Mrs. Taylor was a deep shock to her friends in Birmingham
 Mrs. Taylor was taken i'll Tuesday and hurried to an. infirmary, where the most expert medical attention was given. Al human efforts failed and Mrs. Taylor passed away early yesterday morning Her death deprives the ranks of the re- ligious workers of Birmingham of one of their stanchest adherents and sup porters.
 Funeral services over the remains oi Mrs. Taylor will be conducted this aft. ernoon at 2:S0 o'clock from the First Methodist church. The Rev. J. W. John son will officiate. Interment will follow in Elmwood cemetery. The following will act as pallbearers: Burr Blackburn, l.. D. Burr. Hugh Locke, w. S. Stallings Cowles McMahen, J. P. Hartness, Martin Williams and Erie Stapleton.
 Mrs, Taylor is survived by her husband John Edward Taylor, and father, Maclin Sloss. &
 Mrs. Mabelle Sloss Cecil Taylor was born at Athens in 1S7s She was the daughter of Maclin Sloss, one of the orig inal developers of the mineral district of Birmingham.
 Several years ago Mrs. Taylor became greatly interested in social work, espe- cially in the alleviation of the conditions surrounding working girls. About Il years ago Mir. and Mrs E. T. Taliaferro organized the Young Women's Christian association.
 Very Successful in Work
 At the outset the Young Women's s Chris tian association was modest affair but Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Taliaferro bent all their energies to make the organization one of the greatest in the city. They were successful, as is attested by the magnfi- cent home on Nineteenth street near Sixth avenue, which cost S150,0O0 and is entirely free of debt.
 When the Young Women's Christian association was first established Mrs. Taylor was made general secretary. About
 
 from then on to last February, when she married John Edward Taylor, a promi- nent wholesale merchant of Morris ave nue, Mrs. Taylor continued her work al the Young Women's Christian association
 As general secretary of the Young Women's Christian association, Mrs Fay Tor was the friend and intimate of hun dreds of working girls. It is by them that her death is mourned as these girls realize that a friend md is gone.
 Aside from her work at the Young Women's Christian association Mrs. Fay Tor was prominent in all manner of char itable work and religious activity.
 Owing to the death of Mrs. Taylor all social entertainments and other meetings planned by the Young Women's Chris tian association have been indefinitely postponed. The girls of the association will attend the services in a body this afternoon.
 Tribute by Mrs. BranscOmb
 As an evidence of the esteem in which Mrs. Taylor was held, the following trib- ute was paid to her yesterday by Mrs. Minnie McGehee Branscomb, wife of the presiding elder of the Birmingham dis trict, Dr. l.. C. Branscomb:
 "In the sudden passing of Mrs. John Taylor on Friday morning, Birmingham mas SuSIdlneu a lOSS Snc cOulu III dl- ford. In every large city the size of Birmingham there is an incalculable need of the kind of philanthropic work that made Mrs. Taylor a universal fa- vorite in her home city.
 "She was tried friend to those who sought comfort at her hands she has been for a number of years such friend to the business young -@om- an, to girls who are away from home and dependent upon boarding houses for their homes, to the young woman who needs a friend in city, where there is not thrown about her the safe environment of religious home and Christian mother. During the time that she was the efficient general sec retary of the Young Women's Chris tian association few people know how many broken hearted young women and girls who found they must have the counsel of a friend sought her out and in the privacy of her own little office whispered into her sympathetic ear their burdens. Such ones rarely left her office without new concep- dren and a peace that comes from a surrender of oneself to Christ, the Re- deemer. In my estimation she was one of the rare beings of whom it might be said that no one could know her well without being made better, purer, happier, more useful and more conse- crated in life because she had lived.
 Tt was in this work with the Y.
 (Continued on Page EIght.)