Gloria June Cole Taylor, was born on April 30,1935 in Orange, New Jersey to the late Leonard H. Cole and Virgie Lee Stephenson Cole.  Gloria was the youngest of Leonard and Virgie's eight children.

In the early 1950's, Gloria moved from New Jersey to Philadelphia, PA. Gloria attended John Bartram High School, where her goal was to become a teacher. While attending high school, she was a Counselor's Aide, Library Aide, and member of the Basketball Club. Gloria graduated with a high school diploma in 1954.

In 1957, Gloria June Cole married Roosevelt Taylor, Sr. and lived in West Philadelphia. They later resided in Yeadon, PA, where they raised three children: Glynn Clarence Taylor, Teri Ann Taylor, and Roosevelt Taylor, Jr. The family later moved to Magnolia, NJ, and finally to Lawnside, NJ.

Gloria had a love of playing the numbers and shopping on QVC.  Gloria always enjoyed entertaining and spending time with family and friends. She was president and founder of the Social Club, Charisma, which held annual banquets, dances and bus trips to Atlantic City, NJ.

Gloria loved volunteering her time and talents to her children's activities; she served simultaneously, as her son Glynn's Boy Scout Den Mother and as her daughter Teri's Girl Scout Troop Leader.  Gloria took her youngest son, Roosevelt, Jr., to many BMX biking events in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Through the years, Gloria worked as a bookkeeper for a publisher, a bank manager, and a furniture claims adjuster at Strawbridge & Clothier department store in Philadelphia, PA.

Gloria loved her family and her church, First Baptist Church of Darby.  While she could not attend in person during the later years of her blessed life, she stayed an active member, receiving monthly home visits and fellowship with the First Baptist Church of Darby's Deacon and Deaconess ministry.

Gloria went to be with the Lord on February 23, 2021. She is predeceased by her husband, Roosevelt Taylor, Sr., her siblings, James Cole, Leonard Cole, Clarence Cole, Gilbert Cole, Russell Cole, Alice Cole Taylor, Elizabeth Cole; her in-laws, Ashe T Taylor, Nathaniel Taylor, Herman Taylor, Fred Taylor, Margaret Taylor Lewis, and Mary Taylor Coleman. Gloria leaves to cherish her memory her two sons, Glynn Clarence Taylor and Roosevelt Taylor, Jr.; one daughter, Teri Ann Taylor; a daughter-in-law, Rebecca Taylor; one brother-in-law, Walter Taylor; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, extended family, and friends.

Relatives and friends are invited to her viewing, Thursday March 4, 2021, from 10 AM to 12 PM, followed by her Funeral Service at 12 PM at TERRANOVA FUNERAL HOME, 402 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights, NJ. Interment will be at Fernwood Cemetery, Lansdowne, PA.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions to the American Diabetes Association, www.diabetes.org.