Last known residence was 770 LINCOLN AVE34, NAPA, CA.

Taylor York, 84, former columnist for the Napa Record, died April 29, 2002, at Queen of the Valley Hospital. He was born March 5, 1918 in Oakland to Albert and Adeline Taylor York.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. Following the war, he worked as a postal clerk in Healdsburg before moving to Point Arena in 1951, where he worked in the family establishment of Gillmore Mercantile Co. He later became proprietor of Garcia Center.

He was also the mayor of Point Arena, Point Arena Fire chief, school board director and Mendocino County planning commissioner.

Taylor moved to Napa in 1978, where he worked as a real estate agent for Century 21 and pursued yet another career, as a writer. He wrote a novel, "Mendocino," which was the recipient of the Jessamyn West Creative Writing Award and, in recent years, wrote for the Napa Record.

He is survived by his loving companion, Jane Kriedt; his children, Carolyn Biles (Charlie) of Eureka, Charles York (Mickie) of Green Valley, Ariz., and James York (Kathy) of Point Arena. He also leaves six grandchildren, Elise, Diana, Michelle, Michael, Shane and Justin, and two great-grandchildren, Taylor and Devin.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Doris Gillmore York, who died in 1993.

• Married: 1939 in Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA

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