- Date Of Birth: August 25, 1928
- Date Of Death: September 15, 2010
- State: Florida
Ella May “Pat” Taylor 1928 – 2010 Ella May “Pat” Fillastre Taylor, age 82, of Gulf Breeze, FL, passed away Wednesday, September 15, 2010. The daughter of Arthur P. Fillastre and May Bowen Fillastre, she was born at her parents’ home at 801 America Street in Baton Rouge, LA, August 25, 1928. She especially loved learning, the arts, libraries, travel, photography, computers and the movies. She was a proud feminist, member of the National Organization for Women, Democratic Party, and Amnesty International. Her favorite place to return to was the island of Oahu, Hawaii. She was known for her creativity, taste, style and elegance in fashion and home decor. One day outside her high school, University Lab School at Louisiana State University, she met her future husband Robert Roy Taylor Jr., a college freshman. They married in 1947 after he returned from WWII and a stint in the Navy. She graduated from LSU with a B.A. in 1949. She was the glue that held her family together traveling from duty station to duty station. Her first trip by ship across the Atlantic to join her husband overseas in post-War Germany many of the wives fell ill. Not only did she care for her own baby, she administered to the other wives and their children as well. As an army wife she lived in many places–Ft. Knox, Kentucky; Munich and Frankfurt, Germany; Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX; Ft. Holabird, Baltimore, MD; Camp Zama, Japan; Ft. Shafter, Honolulu, Hawaii. No matter where she ended up–a deserted farmhouse in post-war Germany or a small apartment in Baltimore–she managed to make the places home with taste and style. While living in Japan she worked as a Red Cross volunteer delivering books, games, and smiles to wounded young men evacuated to the Zama hospital. During these travels she studied at Johns Hopkins University, L.S.U. graduate school, and University of Hawaii working on her M.A. in speech pathology. She returned with her family to Baton Rouge when her husband retired in 1970. At this time she re-enrolled in the speech pathology graduate program at L. S. U.
