TRMs oldest living player passes at 100
Published 1:30 pm Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Jack Taylor, center #20, is shown with the T.R. Miller Tiger team in the 1941-42 seasion — his senior year.
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Brewton has lost a well-loved resident with the death of centenarian Jack Taylor.
Taylor died on Sunday at the age of 100 and is believed to be the oldest living T.R. Miller football player.
Taylor graduated at TRM in 1942 and played the halfback position — at just 125 pounds — for the Tigers from 1938 to 1941.
Taylor was a part of the undefeated 1941 team that gave up only 7 points in eight games.
Taylor was an all around athlete playing basketball and baseball as well.
Following his graduation, he served 20 months overseas as a member of the Army Air Force during World War II in England, France and Germany earning three Bronze Stars.
He then returned to Brewton where he lived the rest of his life.
After he retired from Container Corporation of America he spent his days playing golf and watching The University of Alabama play football. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Emma Lou Agee Taylor; his son, Jack Whiddon Taylor, Jr.; and his grandson, Jack Whiddon Taylor, III.
He is survived by his daughter Susan (Per) Cederbom; his son, Tom (Barbara) Taylor;, four grandchildren, Patricia Badrajan (AJ), Katherine Fontenot, Steven Taylor, and Jennifer Friedrichs (Brian), and two great-grandchildren Bradley and Michael.