Donald Taylor

Donald TaylorA memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 16, in the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge on the University of Oregon campus for Donald S. “Don” Taylor of Eugene, who died July 7 of age-related causes. He was 86.He was born Aug. 8, 1924, in Portland to Donald and Eva Jane Tucker Taylor. He married Joanne Seidler in November 1952 in Chicago.He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1947, a master’s degree in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945. He taught at Northwestern University from 1950 to 1954 and was a professor at the University of Washington from 1954 to 1968, at the University of Oregon from 1968 to 1990, emeritus to 2000. At the UO, he was director of English graduate studies from 1968 to 1970, acting head of the classics department from 1975 to 1978 and acting head of the ethnic studies department from 1979 to 1980.Survivors include his wife; three sons, D. Leon of Aloha, Benjamin of Clackamas and Matthew of Nagoya, Japan; a brother, Marshall of Philadelphia; and 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.Arrangements by Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene. Remembrances to the Heifer Project or Mercy Corps.