Michael Lee Taylor, 54, of Orange, Texas died Tuesday, August 17, 2010, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont.

Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 21, 2010, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Kevin Brown of First Baptist Church in Mauriceville. Burial will follow at Wilkinson Cemetery in Orange.

Visitation will be from 6:00-9:00 p.m. Friday, at the funeral home.

Born in Fairbanks, Alaska on July 2, 1956, Michael was the son of Thomas Ruthven Taylor, Jr. and Fannie Sue Harrison.

Preceded in death by his parents, Michael is survived by his sisters and brothers, Myra Hutto and husband, Bill of Mauriceville, Sue Wilson and husband, Aubrey of Pensacola, Florida, Thomas R. Taylor, III of Waynesboro, Mississippi, Wanda Lois Reeser and husband, Dennis of Concord, California, and Mark Alvin Taylor and wife, Mickey of Pensacola, Florida; and numerous nieces and nephews.