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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Firemandk, post: 435393, member: 7258&quot;]<font size="6"><b>A little about the former owner of your Urn / Vase</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>EVANGELICAL GROUP FOUNDER CLYDE W. TAYLOR DIES</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Clyde W. Taylor, 83, one of the founders and a former director general of the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization of missionary-oriented, non-mainline churches and individuals, died of cancer June 3 at his home in Arnold, Md.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Taylor came to Washington in 1944 to become secretary of public affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, which has a constituency estimated at 10 million. He became director general in 1963 and he retired in 1976. Simultaneously he was executive d</p><p>irector of the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association.</p><p><br /></p><p>He also was a founder and a member of the boards of directors of the World Relief Commission, the World Evangelical Fellowship and the National Association of Religious Broadcasters, and was a member of the board of the American Bible Society.</p><p><br /></p><p>He wrote several articles and books on world missions, and was a recipient of the World Relief Commission&#039;s &quot;Helping Hands Award.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1968, Christian Herald magazine described him as &quot;one of America&#039;s 10 most powerful Protestants.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>A native of Fort Smith, Ark., Dr. Taylor was reared in Phoenix. He attended Nyack Missionary Institute in New York and graduated from Gordon College, where he also received a degree in divinity. He earned a master&#039;s degree in Spanish literature at Boston University. He held honorary </p><p>doctorates from Western Baptist College, Malone College and Houghton College. In 1958 he was named the Gordon College Alumnus of the Year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before moving to Washington he had been a missionary in Peru and Colombia and pastor of First Baptist Church in Quincy, Mass.</p><p><br /></p><p>At his retirement, Dr. Taylor moved to Arnold. He was a member of Kiwanis on Severn and Heritage Baptist Church in Annapolis. He was a former member and interim pastor at what is now Capitol Baptist Church in Washington.</p><p><br /></p><p>Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Ruth Taylor of Arnold; three daughters, Orletta Gillikin of Arnold, Darlene Tate of Annapolis and Carolyn Thompson of Orlando, Fla.; a son, Clyde D. Taylor, who is the U.S. ambassador to Paraguay and who lives in Asuncion; one brother, the Rev. Harold Taylor of Osage Lake, Mo.; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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