Pauline Price

Taylor

Pauline Price Taylor of Thomasville, Georgia passed away on February 1, 2026 at Camellia Gardens Rehab Facility surrounded by her family. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm at Salem Baptist Church on Friday, February 6, 2026 with Pastor Doug Thompson and Dr. Jimmy Clanton officiating. Interment will be held at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Thomasville, Georgia. Her family will receive friends and family at 1:00 pm, the hour before the service.

Born in Barwick, Georgia on September 19, 1931, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Foy Hagan Price. She retired from the City of Thomasville Water & Light Department after forty plus years of serving the community that she loved as a dispatch supervisor. She was a life-long member of Salem Baptist Church where she had the honor of serving as the Sunday School Class President. A loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, she enjoyed cooking, gardening, making jelly, and crocheting. She loved the Atlanta Braves and was sure to watch them faithfully. She became a huge supporter of Freddie Freeman whom she continued to follow when he moved on to the L.A. Dodgers. She adored her family and her family thought of her as the glue that held everyone together.

Pauline graduated from Barwick High School in 1948 and voted Most Valuable Player in basketball her senior year. After high school, she married J.T. Owens of Pavo, Georgia, until his untimely death after their first year of marriage. At the age of twenty-one, in a show of her resilient spirit, as a young widow she had the home they lived in moved from Pavo to the city of Thomasville. Later, she married Carl Sumner, and together, they had three children. Years later in 1971, she married Floyd Taylor and enjoyed 34 years of marriage until his passing in 2005.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by; her son, Forrest Sumner, brothers, James Price, Cooper Price, Harry Price, and sisters Verna Mae Lewis, Lee Alma Viehmeyer, and Lois Hall. Survivors include; her son Joey Sumner (Tammy), daughter, Carolyn "Skunky" Sumner Hoover (Ben), daughter-in-law, Mabel Sumner, and brother, Jimmy Price (Peggy) of Fayettville, NC, seven grandchildren, Corey Sumner (Lori), Kelli Sumner, Christie Sumner, Blake Sumner (Sara), Morgan Taylor, Hunter Taylor, and Garrett Taylor, five great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family would like to extend their appreciation to the staff of Southern Pines Assisted Living, where she was currently residing, the Centerwell Home Health Caregiver Teams, the caring staff at Camellia Gardens, and the physicians and staff who cared for her at McIntosh Clinic.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Georgia Forestry Commission to support reforestation.