Donald Lee Taylor, 83, of Ridgely, passed away on Friday, May 10, 2013 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center.

He was a retired commodities trader for Shaw Cotton Gin and a member of First Baptist Church in Ridgely, where he served many years as a deacon. He was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, where he served in the Korean War and received the Purple Heart Medal. He was a graduate of University of Missouri, avid fisherman and golfer and loved working in the yard.

Services will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church in Ridgely with the Rev. Clayton Mahan and the Rev. Jack Henry officiating. Burial will be in New Haven Cemetery. Dyersburg Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

The family will receive visitors from 5-7 p.m. Saturday and from 3-4 p.m. Sunday at the church.

Survivors include his wife, Connie Perkins Taylor of Ridgely; a daughter, Sandra Taylor Castle of Macon, GA; a son, Timothy Lee Taylor of Memphis; a sister, Jacque Taylor Hill of Arlington, VA; a brother, Steve Lane Taylor of Sedona, AZ; three grandchildren, Holly Beth Dickerson, Megan Taylor Prescott and Anna Katherine Halton; and three great-grandchildren, Gabriella Nicole Graves, Harper Prescott and Lee Prescott.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Harold and Zurline King Taylor; and a grandson, Taylor Graves.

Pallbearers will be Wilkes Moore, Mac Forrester, Todd Castle, Kent Patterson, Trent Patterson and Ed Sumara. Honorary pallbearers will be Buford Hopper, Sharon Hayes, Ben Patterson and James Boyd Eddlemon.

The family requests that memorials be directed to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.