Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Wilbur D. "Buck" Grose    
                Born: Nov-14-1916          in Berea, Ritchie Co, WV  1,2
                Died: Sep-13-1988           1
             Resided:                      in Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV  3,2
              Father: Charles Isaac Grose 
              Mother: Mary Byrda Burwell 
Other spouse 1
                Wife: Virginia Mildred Markle   4  
                Born: Aug-26-1920          at Porto Rico (New Milton), Doddridge Co, WV  5
                Died: Apr- 5-2009          in Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  5
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  5
             Resided:                      in Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV  5
           Education:                      Pennsboro H.S. (1939)  5
          Occupation:                      Midway Restaurant employee, garment worker at Pennsboro Manufacturing  5
              Father: Arthur W. Markle   (1892 -     ) 
              Mother: Ora May Kiger   (1894 -     ) 
           F Child 1: Glenna Mae Grose      
                Born: Jan-29-1944          in Baltimore, MD  6,7
                Died: Dec-15-1967          in Point Pleasant, Mason Co, WV  7
              Buried: Dec-30-1967          in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  7,8
      Cause of death:                      drowned in Ohio River in Silver Bridge disaster  9
             Resided:                      in Point Pleasant, Mason Co, WV  7
             Resided: 1963                 near Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV  
          Occupation:                      school teacher  7
           Education:                      Glenville State College  5
             Husband: Denzil Ray Taylor  b. Nov-30-1942  d. Dec-15-1967  
             Married: Nov-28-1963          in Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV  6

Sources:
(1) Social Security Death Index. 
(2) Pleasants County Marriage Records, St. Marys, WV. 
(3) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in West Virginia before 1951. 
(4) Obituary of wife. 
(5) Obituary. 
(6) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV. 
(7) Mason County Death Records, Point Pleasant, WV. 
(8) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(9) Obituary, Funeral services for Glenna Mae Taylor, 23, of Point Pleasant, the 36th victim of the Silver Bridge disaster 
to be recovered from the Ohio River, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lewis-Rogers Funeral Home in Pennsboro, 
W.Va. 
Burial will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Harrisville. Mrs. Taylor was the wife of Denzil Ray Taylor, a Point 
Pleasant High School teacher, who was in the car with her when the bridge collapsed. His body has not been 
recovered. 
Mrs. Taylor was born Jan. 27, 1944, in Baltimore, Md., the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Grose of Pennsboro. 
She was a former teacher on leave from Point Pleasant High School and with her husband had resided in the K & K Mobile 
Home Park near the Point Pleasant city limits. The couple had been expecting their first child in January. 
She was a graduate of Glenville State College and a member of the Pennsboro Church of Christ. Here she attended both 
Bellemeade EUB and Trinity Methodist Churches. Friends may call at the Lewis-Rogers Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Friday. If 
the body of Denzil Taylor is found before Saturday, it was reported, joint funeral services will take place. If not a 
special memorial service will be conducted along with funeral services for his wife. 
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