Samuel Craig Taylor

Samuel Craig Taylor
Duffield, VA | January 24, 2014

Craig Taylor – Duffield, VA
Samuel Craig Taylor, 46, Duffield, VA passed away, Friday, January 24, 2014 at his residence on Purchase Ridge of Scott County, VA of an apparent heart attack.
Craig was born in Sullivan County, TN on April 18, 1967 to the late Arthur Paul Eugene Taylor and Linda M. Clendenin Bledsoe.
He had a love for the outdoors and loved hunting and fishing with his hunting buddies.
In addition to his father, his maternal grandparents, Thomas and Georgia Clendenin; paternal grandparents, Arthur and Oakie Taylor; step mother, Rosie Taylor; his special uncle, Thomas Clendenin, Jr.; special aunt, Marcella Rhoton; uncles, James Chester Taylor and Keith Taylor; aunt, Mary Etta Todd; and several cousins preceded him in death.
He is survived by his mother. Linda Bledsoe and step father, Jimmy Bledsoe, who raised Craig as his own; step grandparents, Kyle and Edna Bledsoe, Fairview, VA; half sisters, Angela Ramey and family, VA and Renee Woods and family, Wilmington, NC; uncles, B.A. Clendenin, Ft. Blackmore, VA and Corky Clendenin, Church Hill, TN, who he loved as brothers, Leonard Neeley, Keokee, VA, Frank Taylor, Gate City, VA, Denny Taylor, MI, Jerry Taylor, Ft. Blackmore, VA, and Dwight Taylor, Gate City, VA; aunts, Reba Clendenin (his little angel), Duffield, VA, Lulia Maine, Wise, VA, Della Smith, Richmond, VA, Margie Thompson, Kingsport, TN, and Frances Depew, Kingsport, TN; special friends, Keith Carr, Gray, TN and Conley Rhoton, Duffield, VA; a whole bunch of nieces and nephews, who he dearly loved; and a host of cousins and friends.
The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m., Monday, January 27, 2014 at the Gate City Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted at 7:00 p.m. in the Gene Falin Memorial Chapel of the funeral home with Rev. Otto Gibson and Evangelist Kenneth Neeley officiating. The Gibson family will provide the music.
Graveside services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at the Clendenin Home Place Cemetery on Purchase Ridge in Duffield, VA. B.A. Clendenin, Corky Clendenin, Keith Carr, Jessee Clendenin, Marion Smith, Chad Clendenin, Alex Maine, and Paul Maine will serve as pallbearers. Will Simpson, Don Lane, Conley Rhoton, T. Ray Maine, and Jeff Clendenin will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Family and friends are asked to meet at the cemetery for the graveside service.
An online guest register is available for the Taylor family at www.gatecityfunerals.com.
Gate City Funeral Home is honored to be serving the family of Samuel Craig Taylor.