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1941 The
Silver Lion
Carrollton High School
Carrollton, Dallas Co., Texas
Senior ClassMILDRED GOOD
The breaker of many a
poor boy's heart
Is Punk Good who to John
Jr shot the dart
In art and singing does
she excell
And all she does, she
does very well. |
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ARTICLE
Mildred Good To Study in New York
Miss Mildred Good, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Good, left Wednesday, August 6, for New York City. Mildred is entering
art school.
Mr. and Mrs. Ry McCormick entertained Miss Good with a picnic supper and movie
on their lawn, Friday evening, August 1. The long table at which the guests were
seated was centered with an electric train, and stations depicting her travels
from Carrollton to New York. The honorees place was marked with a large cake
decorated with the artist's palette and brushes. The guest list included the
honoree, who was escorted by Audy Sidor, of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Godfrey,
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Blanton, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Blanton, Mrs. J. C. Foster, Sr.,
Mrs. Glen McDonald, F. M. Good and Miss Lois Kerr, Misses Ruth Hughes and Mary
Grace Good, and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Good.
The Dallas Morning News - April 3, 1949
Submitted by Edward
Lynn Williams |
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OBITUARY
MILDRED GOOD TAYLOR
September 19, 1923 - May 4, 2021
Mildred Good Taylor, a professional artist and descendent of one
of the original pioneer families that settled north Texas, passed away
peacefully on May 4th, 2021. The last few years of her life she resided
near her son's family in Virginia.
Born on September 19, 1923 in Dallas, Texas, Mildred Good was the
daughter of prominent farmer, rancher and cotton-ginner Rex E Good and
Katherine Thomas Good of Carrollton, Texas and the great-granddaughter
of Noah Good who settled in the Farmers Branch area in 1846 as part of
the Peters Colony. Mildred graduated from Carrollton High School and
attended Baylor University to study art. Following the attack on Pearl
Harbor, she left Baylor to support the war effort and worked at the FBI
in Washington DC as an artist, drawing sketches of suspected spies from
witness descriptions. During this period, she earned a private pilot's
license.
She went on to study art at the Art Students League in New York City
until she married in 1950, but continued art studies at the Corcoran
School of Arts and at American University in Washington DC , mentoring
under several internationally recognized artists and printmakers like
Krishna Reddy and Robert F Gates. A well know artist herself, her
prints, sculptures and wood cuts were featured in numerous art shows and
galleries, including the Corcoran Gallery of Arts, and the National
Gallery of Art. She joined several other artists as an early
owner-member of the Studio Gallery in Washington DC in the 1960s, that
remains to this day a premier artist-owned Gallery. Returning to Texas
in 1966, upon her husband's retirement from the Air Force, she continued
her art work until late in life at her home studio in Arlington, Texas.
She was a life member of Art Students League of New York, a charter
member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Optimist Club of
Fort Worth and the First Baptist Church of Arlington, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Chaplain, Major General Robert
P Taylor, USAF, of Henderson, Texas, a former POW of the Japanese in
WWII who became Air Force Chief of Chaplains, and later Director of
Development at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary . She is
survived by her son Robert P Taylor Jr; daughter-in-law Mary Beth Savary
Taylor; grandchildren Matthew Taylor, Jordan Taylor Miller, Katherine
Taylor and Lauren Taylor; and great-grand children Preston Miller, Rex
Miller and Landon Taylor.
Mrs Taylor will be buried at Restland Cemetery in Dallas on May 29th and
her funeral arrangements will be provided by Moore Funeral Home of
Arlington, Texas. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the
National Museum of Women in the Arts or a charity of choice in Mildred's
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