Nancy Beuhring Taylor
(April 30, 1915 - August 2, 2011)

Nancy Beuhring Taylor, 96, died August 2 at Hospice House of Huntington. Born on April 30, 1915, she was the daughter of Harvey Carter Taylor, Sr. and Nan Hawkins Taylor. She graduated from Huntington High School in 1933 and from Marshall College in 1937 with an MS degree. She received her BS in Library Science from Library School of the University of Illinois Urbana and served for a year as a librarian at Glen Ellen Purdue Library in Illinois. After a stint as the Hines Hospital Librarian and Medical Librarian at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Chicago, IL she transferred to the Veterans Hospital in Atlanta, GA. On September 10, 1942, she enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corp as a private at Fort McPherson, GA and graduated from Officer Training School on July 6, 1943 in Des Moines, IA. She worked in the secret field of radar while stationed in Boston, MA and Dayton, OH. She was discharged as a First Lieutenant in the Women’s Army Corp in 1946. She became the Medical Librarian of the Veteran’s Hospital in Huntington, WV from which she retired after 30 years of service. During that period, she took a year’s leave of absence to work for the WV Library Commission establishing libraries in hospitals and prisons across the state.
She was President of the Huntington League of Women Voters, and Church Women United and the first woman elder elected to the session of Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church. She was active in the Laubach Literacy Reading Program, UNICEF, and the SERV program of Crafts from Abroad. She was also a member for many years of Amnesty International, the Sierra Club, OVEC, and Bread for the World. She was a sponsor of the first Habitat for Humanity house to be built in Huntington.
Her sister, Elinore Dannenberg Taylor and five generations of nieces, nephews and cousins survive her. Her brothers, Harvey Carter, Jr., John, and Kennon, and a sister, Margery Taylor Fowler preceded her in death. Services will be held Sunday, August 7, at 2pm at Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, 469, Norway Avenue by the Rev. Cinda Harkless. Interment will follow in Spring Hill Cemetery. Visitation 1pm until service time. Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, Hospice of Huntington, or the charity of your choice.