Shirley Susan Taylor

Shirley Susan (Wangler) Taylor came to this earth September 14, 1948 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Al and Carmen Wangler of Spencer, Oklahoma. She was called home to be with the Lord on November 13, 2024.

Higher education degrees in Fashion design and construction, Education, and Communication prepared her for a career in the private sector and the Federal Government. Shirley worked at Tinker Air Force Base, Altus Air Force base, and the NASA campus in Houston, Texas before she retired from the U.S. Government in Colorado.

Shirley's love of fashion and travel fueled her creative side. Trips to England, Paris, other areas in Europe, Canada, and Saudi Arabia, gave her ideas and knowledge to work with fabric to create many of her own outfits to rival commercial high fashion clothing.

Her knowledge of fabric led a time of quilted artwork where blankets, pillows, and wall hangings depicted various scenes of rural and modern life.

An aficionado of “A proper English cup of tea” gave Shirley a love of her hot Earl Grey Tea with milk while enjoying watching Downton Abbey. She had hoped to one day visit HighClere Castle in England, where the famous television series was filmed.

Shirley loved her parents and looked forward to the day she could be with them again after her time on this earth was complete.

Shirley is preceded in death by her parents Al and Carmen Wangler, and is survived by her son Brent Taylor and wife Lee Ann Vasquez of Colorado, daughter Susan (Taylor) Wojcik , husband Alex Wojcik, and grandson Akko Wojcick of New Mexico, and son Derek Taylor of Colorado.

Shirley’s surviving siblings include brothers Tony, Russell, Al, Art, and Ralph Wangler all of Oklahoma, sisters Carmen Lemoine, and Cindy Cavenah of Oklahoma, Carol Weigand of Kansas, and Marlene Kringen of Virginia as well as numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

A memorial Celebration of Life is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec 7, at Meeker First United Methodist Church, 343443 E. HWY 62, Meeker, Oklahoma 74855. Rev. Ralph S. Wangler officiating.

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