Sharon Caroline Taylor

Sharon Caroline Taylor, 63, longtime Moses Lake resident and owner of Woody's Drive-In, passed away, Friday, May 7, 2007, at Samaritan Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, May 10, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Rose Street Chapel with Bishop Daniel Hope presiding. Interment will follow at Pioneer Memorial Gardens. The family will greet friends at Kayser's Chapel of Memories on Wednesday, May 9, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and at the church on Thursday morning from 9 a.m. until 9:45 a.m. Arrangements are in care of Kayser's Chapel and Crematory, Moses Lake.

Sharon was born June 15, 1943, in Murray, Utah, daughter of the late Merl and Fern (Bendixen) Tolley. The family moved to Moses Lake in 1949. She attended schools in the Moses Lake School District and while in high school she met Samuel Woodrow "Woody" Taylor, Jr. They were married on Feb. 6, 1959, in Umatilla, Ore. They continued to live in Moses Lake and Sharon enjoyed being a wife and homemaker raising their three children. Woody purchased the Tasty Freeze on Broadway in 1983 and renamed it Woody's Drive-In. Woody passed away six months later and Sharon had continued to own and operate the drive-in since. She put her heart and soul into the drive-in and loved all of the young people that would stop in every day. She also loved playing board games, especially Parcheesi, watching old movies, helping the young people at her drive-in, and spending time and laughing with her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She is survived by children; Marty and Cheri Taylor, Mill Creek, Wash., Jody Taylor and companion Don Butts, Moses Lake, Christy and Dennis Osborn, Vancouver, Wash.; her longtime companion, Pat Ramirez, Moses Lake; six sisters, three brothers and their spouses, Nellie and Lamond Smith, Ferron, Utah, Mae Monroe, Sunnyside, Wash., Grace and Pat Houghton, Coos Bay, Ore., Joe and Judy Chappell, Pittsburg, Okla., Bonnie Wilks, Lapriel and Francis McDowell, Steve and Sharon Tolley, Jerry Ann and Jay Carlson, Kent, Wash., and Rick Tolley and Marie Pinard all of Moses Lake; nine grandchildren, Chandra Lotz, Parker Taylor, Connor Taylor, Alexa Taylor, Jade Gonzales, Jordan Taylor, Woody Taylor, Riley Osborn, Cameron Osborn; six great-grandchildren, Mason, Mallory, Maddison, Halie, Olivia and Braxton.

Sharon was preceded in death by her husband, parents, brother Dean, sister and brother-in-law, June and Jay Stewart, brothers-in-law, Charles Monroe and Rex Wilks.

It is requested that memorial donations be made in Sharon's name to the Downtown Boys and Girls Club, P.O. Box 591, Moses Lake, Wash. 98837.