J. Floyd Naylor

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - J. Floyd Naylor, 87, died June 13, 2004, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Mo.

Born July 28, 1916, in Finger, Tenn., son of the late Harmon and Willie Young Naylor, he was a former resident of Milan, Tenn., and Birmingham and recently moved to Dexter. A former member of the West Memphis Jaycees, he was an elder of the Milan Church of Christ, a minister of Sonshines and minister for Hot Meals for Needy and Handicapped of the Homewood Church of Christ in Birmingham.

In 1939, he married Kathrine Clydell Brock who preceded him in death.

He and Lorraine Hardin were married in 1981 and she survives of Birmingham.

Other survivors include: two daughters, Patricia Ann Baldwin of Dexter and Phyllis Dianne Taylor of St. Louis, Mo.; one stepson, Mark Hardin of Ontario, Ore.; one stepdaughter, Linda Kilpatrick of Nashville, Tenn.; one foster son, Michael W. Bryant of Jackson, Tenn.; four brothers Arthur Naylor of Stantonville, Tenn., Raymond Naylor of Henderson, Tenn., Buford Naylor of Bethel Springs, Tenn., and A.J. Naylor of Adamsville, Tenn.; one sister, Minnie Plunk of Henderson; and five grandchildren, five stepgrandchildren, five stepgrandchildren, six great-grandchildren and three stepgreat-grandchildren.

Services were conducted at noon today at the Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with J. Wayne Kilpatrick of Birmingham officiating.

Burial followed in the Crittenden Memorial Park Cemetery in Marion, Ark.

Watkins and Sons Funeral Home of Dexter was in charge of local arrangements.