Mrs. Mattie L. Taylor, the daughter of the late Evan Hollis and Corine Dawson Hollis Girden, was born March 26, 1942 in Troup County, GA.  Mattie answered our heavenly Father’s call on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at West Georgia Health System, LaGrange, GA.

Mattie accepted Christ and united with the St. John Baptist Church, Lanett, AL, where she served on the Usher Board. Mattie was an Easter Star.

“Mattie Lou”, as she was known in the neighborhood, was product of the former Tenth Street School.

She was employed by the Ponder’s family, her second family, until her death.

She enjoyed watching her stories on television.  She loved her in home visits.  Most of all everyone loved her homemade biscuits and salmon.

Mattie was preceded in death by her husband, Johnny Frank Taylor, a son, Tarius T. Taylor, three sisters, Estella “Stella” Hollis, Mary A. Dawson, Sara L. Hollis and a niece, Mary A. Glaze.

She leaves to cherish her memories, three brothers, Columbus Hollis, Cedartown, GA; Gary(Mary)Hollis, LaGrange, GA; Nathaniel (Pat) Hollis, West Point, GA; three nieces, Gloria Glaze, Dayton, OH; Demetress Hodnett, LaGrange, GA; Makita Allen, West Point, GA; seven nephews, Eddie Hulin, Lanett, AL; Dexter Hodnett, Union City, GA; Gary Hodnett, Anthony Hodnett, LaGrange, GA Roderick Holloway, Marco Holloway, Lanett, AL; a host of great and great great  nieces and nephews, Frankie Ponder, IV and Slade Ponder, Lanett, AL,whom she reared as her own, cousins and other relatives and friends; special friends, Gladys Hill, Hettie Wilkerson and Arrie Clark and many many others.