Marvyl May Nelson

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≤p>≤span style="color: #36322d; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fafafa;">Marvyl May Taylor passed away Sunday, July 11, 2010 at the age of 85. She was born May 24, 1925 to Joseph and Naomi Nelson in Albert Lea, Minnesota and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine siblings. ≤/span>≤/p>t-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fafafa;">After graduating from San Leandro High School, she worked in a sweet shop where she met the loveof her life, Robert Henry Taylor, husband of sixty-five years. They were married on October 25, 1945. ≤/span>≤/p>ns-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fafafa;">After raising her three daughters, she began a thirty year career as an Avon representative, earning twenty-four President's Club Sales Achievement Awards. She loved to bowl, was an accomplished knitter and an avid Oakland A's and Oakland Raider's fan. ≤/span>≤/p>l, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fafafa;">She was known for her famous Three Bean Salad and Red Cabbage, her own rendition of "Bill Bailey, Won't You Come Home", as well as her creative use of the English language. ≤/span>≤/p>by her husband Robert Taylor and her devoted Dachshund "Shorty". She is also survived by her brother Leonard Nelson of Hedgesville, West Virginia and her three daughters and their families Carole andEd Kaiser of Fresno, California, Virginia and Lou Maraschiello of Roanoke, Virginia and Donna and Roy Ferguson of Wagoner, Oklahoma. ≤/span>≤/p>Sans Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fafafa;">She was affectionately known as ‘Gaga' to her five grandchildren Kim Kouba of Denver, Colorado, Tracie Polosky of Fresno, California, Latresha Evans of Inola, Oklahoma, Lynette McBride of Wagoner, Oklahoma and Joe Maraschiello of Louisville, Kentucky, and her eight great grandchildren. Funeral services willbe at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at the First Christian Church.≤/span>≤/p>