Obituary of Baxter Taylor

At 2:00 PM, on Christmas Day, 1950, the Spirit of Baxtor Taylor of Hampden went out of him that gave it life. As for many others, Christmas was to have been a happy occasion for Baxter as he was on his way home from Corner Brook with furnishings to complete his new home.
Unfortunately the icy highway proved to much for him and he met with an accident from which he could not recover. He died at Corner Brook hospital a day later.

Born at Boot Harbour, Hall's Bay, in 1899, Baxer was one of a family of ten, some of whom later moved to Springdale. During the First World War, he enlisted in the Newfoundland Regiment and was on active service in France. Returning from the war in 1919, Mr. Taylor married Miss Minnie Newhook of Rattling Brook and worked for several years with the A.N.D. company in the Badger and Grand Falls areas. In 1924 when the Humber Development was in progress, he joined the Woods department of the Corner Brook company and worked for a year or so on Grand Lake. Shortly after this he moved to Hampden, White Bay, which was his home during the following years and while he was a successful pulpwood contractor and foreman with the Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Company, and later development of his private transportation business.

A well liked member of the community in which he lived, Baxter Taylor's death is deeply regretted by all who really knew him. His widow, brothers Ernst, George and Angus at Springdale and Herman in New Jersey and his sisters, Mrs. A. Ball and Mrs. J. Sparkes of Corner Brook, Mrs. Jerry Ball at Botwook, Mrs. A. Allan Rowsell at Springdale and Mrs. A. Fialko living in New Jersey have the sympathy of their friends in their bereavement.

Mr. Taylor was buried in the United Church Cemetery in Deer Lake, the Rev. R.J. Matthew, himself a comrade of the First Great War and a personal friend of the deceased, officiated declaaring in his remarks in the words that he had often used in the Navy's service, "he is not dead to us". An official representation of the G.W.V.A. attended the funeral ceremonies