Chesley "Ches" Taylor, 85 of Pullman, WA passed away February 2, 2021 at Bishop Place in Pullman after suffering many years from Parkinson's Disease.  He was born April 22, 1935 in Edinburg, Texas to Albert & Alice (Adams) Taylor.

He spent his childhood and youth in McAllen, Texas.  Ches graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and went on to earn his MA and PhD in English Literature at Loyola University in New Orleans, LA.

Ches spent his entire professional career with the Department of English at Washington State University.  Taylor and his first wife, Auda Vargas Taylor, raised their three children Bill, Roger and Stephanie in Pullman.  The children's beloved mother died from cancer in Pullman.

Taylor and Barbara Brown were married in 1989 and continued living in the Pullman and Moscow, ID area.

Taylor is survived by his wife Barbara; his three adult children; and his five grandchildren Carmen, Olivia, Gabriel, Maya and Faith.  He also leaves his beloved little sister Stuart T. Massie, who remembers calling him her own Chessie Bear.

No memorial services are being planned at this time.  Contact with the family can be made with Barbara Brown Taylor at Bishop Place Senior Living in Pullman, WA.  Kimball Funeral Home of Pullman, WA has been entrusted with arrangements.

"Traffic slowly resumes,

Bread rises as it should,

Birds jerk their wings

against the air,

I walk slowly, carefully,

into a house

Still standing where I

left it."

JCT