Mrs. Billie Jean Tayloe, age 89, of Bumpus Mills, TN, passed away, Saturday, January 29, 2022 at Diversicare of Dover. She was born July 4, 1932 in Cement, OK daughter of the late Chancey and Lillie Pearl Harris Swarts.
She graduated from high school in Cement, OK. She then married Jesse Tilton Tayloe on November 1, 1950 and celebrated fifty years of marriage with Jesse, until he died in 2001. Billie was employed at Comanche County Memorial Hospital as a housekeeper. She moved to Bumpus Mills, TN in 2004 to spend the rest of her life with her daughters and her many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Her family and her church were her life. She was a prayer warrior who lived a spiritual life anonymously blessing so many. She loved God with all her heart, soul, and mind, and truly loved everyone she met. She literally gave the clothes off her body.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Chancey Swarts and Lille (Harris) Swarts, and her beloved husband Jesse Tayloe.
She is survived by her children, Katherine Williams and her husband, Ronnie Williams, Bumpus Mills, TN, Linda (Jody) Pratt and her husband Doug Pratt, Bumpus Mills, TN, and Emmit Tayloe and his wife, Dolina Tayloe, Medicine Park, OK; grandchildren, Elizabeth (Crysti) Hamilton, Michael Williams, Terissa Morrow, Catherine Mattax, Austin Humberson, Travis Mantooth, Cory Tayloe, and Jessica Harris; 19 great grandchildren, and eight great-great grandchildren.
She will be laid to rest at Post Cemetery, Ft. Sill, OK. A celebration of life will be held at New Hope Church of God with a date and time to be announced.
Local arrangements are entrusted to Anglin Funeral Home, Dover, TN and online condolences may be made at anglinfuneralhome.com