Clara Ellen Taylor Bishop Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Clara Ellen Taylor Bishop, 85, passed away June 1, 2022, at St. Elizabeth Edgewood. She was born to the late Sherman and Elsie Florence Lanter Taylor in Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio, on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1936--just in time for turkey, she would quip. As a teenager, she worked at the bus stop in Ripley, Ohio, and when she graduated from the high school there, she went to Cincinnati to work at the VA Hospital in Cincinnati as a bookkeeper. On February 17, 1962, she married Alvin Richard Bishop, Sr., of Pendleton County, and they settled on the farm. She cooked many meals for tobacco hands through the 44 years they worked there, and she kept the books as he worked the farm. She also helped on the farm as she could. She was active at Cemetery Chapel Christian Church in Lenoxburg as a musician and as a Sunday School teacher for elementary students for many years. Her favorite roles were mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her grandchildren could do no wrong until her great-grandchildren came along. She was known for her gentle, loving nature, her willingness to help neighbors who fell ill or who lost loved ones--almost always by cooking--and for her fabulous sense of humor. Preceding her in death were Alvin in 2010, her parents, an older brother, Richard Judson Campbell Taylor, brother-in-law Bud Manning, and cousins Mabel and Gleason Bloom. Surviving are her daughter Carolyn (Brian) Reid of Falmouth and her son Rich (Ryan) Bishop of Independence; her grandchildren Barton Reid, Brett (Jillian) Reid, Brennan (Shawnee) Reid, and Charissa Reid; her great-grandchildren Trevor and Carter Iles and Brileigh and Clara Jane Reid; her sister Patricia Manning of Georgetown, Ohio; special grandchildren Ting Lu and Weifeng Lee, Ella and Leelu, as well as beloved cousins, sisters-in-law and a brother-in-law, nieces, and nephews. Services will be held 2 pm at Woodhead Funeral Home in Falmouth Sunday, June 5, 2022, with Kevin Barnard officiating. Visitation will be from 11- 2 pm preceding the funeral. Interment will take place in Lenoxburg Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Lenoxburg Cemetery: c/o Rich Bishop, 10793 Cypresswood Drive, Independence, KY 41051 or to Cemetery Chapel Christian Church: c/o Amy Pribble, 1057 Lenoxburg Foster Road, Foster, KY 41043.

Clara Ellen Taylor Bishop

November 26, 1936 - June 1, 2022