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- Shelbyville News 26 Aug 1987
(Picture) Taggarts to mark 40th Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. James F.
Taggart Sr., R.R.1 Waldron, will be honored Saturday at a surprise open house
for friends and relatives, in celebration of their 40th wedding anniversary.
The couple's children and their families will host the affair from 2
to 5 p.m. at the Taggart residence on Middletown road. For information call
525-4829 or 525-6380.
Mr. Taggart and the former Betty L. Bassett were married Aug. 26 1947
at the Calvary Baptist Church by the Rev. Clarence Hager. Mr. Taggart is
employed at Knauf Fiber Glass.
The Taggarts are the parents of Jim Taggart, Mrs. Larry (Betty) Shook,
Mrs. Russell (Bonnie) Sipes, Mrs. Cecil (Jennie) Daugherty, Tim Taggart, Mike
Taggart, Mrs. David (Sherrie) Thompson, Mrs. Tom (Tina) Fisher, and Kristi,
Elizabeth and Andy Taggart. They also have 23 grandchildren and 3 great-
grandchildren.
OBITUARY Shelbyville News 14 Sep 1994
Betty L. Taggart, 65, 713 E. Middletown Road, Waldron, died at 9 a.m.
Wednesday at her home.
Born Aug. 25, 1929 in Shelbyville, she was the daughter of Edward and
Lettie Baker Bassett. On Aug. 26, 1947 she married James F. Taggart Sr., who
survives.
Mrs. Taggart was a homemaker. She had lived in Waldron for 22 years
moving there from St. Paul. She was a member of the Waldron Baptist church
where she belonged to the Baptist Women's Missionary Class.
Other survivors are sons, Mike Taggart, Shelbyville, James F. Taggart
Jr., Vevay, Andy and Tim Taggart, St. Paul; daughters Elizabeth Brown,
Shelbyville, Betty Ann Shook, Milroy, Bonnie Sipes, Indianapolis, Sherr
Prine, Anderson, Jennie Daugherty, North Vernon, Tina Foster, Oneida, Tenn.,
Kristi Ristuccia, Hawaii; Sisters, Marily Wilson, Lucy Saunders, and Ru
Landwerlen, all of Shelbyville, Mary Henderson, Hope; a brother, Jack Bassett,
Shelbyville; 29 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Taggart was preceded in death by four sisters and a brother.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Glenn E. George Funeral
Home, St. Paul, with the Rev. Ed Dorsey officiating. Burial will be in Bennett
Cemetery, Shelbyville. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at
the funeral home.
Memorial may be sent to the Shelby County Cancer fund.
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