Joyce Taylor 80 of Abilene passed away Wednesday March 03 2010. No services are planned at this time. Arrangements are being handled by North's Funeral Home 242 Orange Street. Joyce was born December 8 1929 in Washington DC to Frank and Loy (Cowart) Lindsey. She was raised in Hahira Georgia. She was a very good shot. She had a variety of pets: two squirrels a cougar an owl a hog and was once found asleep on the family cow. Wylene graduated from Grady Memorial School of Nursing Atlanta in 1959. She married Huey Taylor on December 7 1962 in Montgomery Alabama. She worked in Montgomery; Monroe Louisiana; and Abilene. Joyce enjoyed her grandchildren bingo painting and cooking (especially biscuits). In the past few years her memory was diminished but not her smile. Wylene still remembered that she did not like cutting tobacco or picking cotton. She was preceded in death by her parents her husband and son Michael O. Young. She is survived by her daughter Bernice Hege and husband Duane; her brother Robert Lindsey and wife Jo; a sister Jennie Blackmon and husband Paul; Michael's wife Sue; and grandchildren: Amanda Brian David Merrilee and Jack. Online condolences can be made at www.northsfuneralhome.com