Editor’s note: Roxanne was a board member of the Robberson Neighborhood Association and contributor to SGF Neighborhood News.
Roxanne Marie Taylor, age 66, of Springfield, Missouri, passed away suddenly on June 20, 2020.
We will honor her life with a Graveside Service which will take place at 11:00 AM, on July 1, 2020 at Hazelwood Cemetery.
Roxanne Taylor was born in Springfield, Missouri to Mary Ann and Bobby Gene Bedell on February 19, 1954. She went to school at Roberson Elementary, Reed Junior High and Hillcrest High School in Springfield. Roxanne went to Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. She received her bachelor’s degree in Business and Industrial Communications from Southwest Missouri State University and a master’s degree in Blind Rehabilitation Therapy from Western Michigan University. She worked as an educator for a number of years.
Roxanne was the “big sister” of the family and looked after her sisters and brothers the same as our mother. She loved to cook for big gatherings and was the life of any party. Roxanne always contributed products at our family reunions to generate income for scholarships for high school and college graduates in our family. Roxanne was a very caring person. She knew everyone, loved people, and truly gone too soon.
She was involved in the Springfield Service Club of the Blind, the voting polls and other organizations around Springfield.
Roxanne was preceded in death by her mother and father, and brother, Terrence Bedell.
Roxanne is survived by her brother, Robert Bedell; sister, Rhonda F Bedell and her husband, Mheta Mwangachuchu, sister, Vanessa Joyner; sister, Karen Thompson; brother, Emmitt Bedell; brother, William Bedell and his wife Beatrice; sister, Renita Strickland; uncle, William Whitcomb, aunt, Virginia McCallum and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.