Alice C. Taylor, 90 of Ridge, MD died on July 13, 2009 in Great Mills, MD.

Born July 27, 1918 in Baltimore, MD, she was the daughter of the late J. Herbert and Sara R. Lewis Cullison.

In 1965 J. Frank Raley, Jr., State Senator, St. Mary's County, submitted Mrs. Taylor's name to then Governor Millard Tawes to serve as the first woman Magistrate in Southern Maryland. She was sworn in by Ms. Mary Fowler and served with St. Mary's County Trial Magistrate John H.T. Briscoe, retiring in 1981.

In addition to her parents Mrs. Taylor was preceded in death by her husband Joseph W. Taylor, whom she married on October 12, 1940 in St. Michael's Catholic Church, Ridge, MD, and her sister Dorothy Dunbar.

Alice is survived by her daughters; Nancy Abell, (Ted) of Ridge, MD, Joanne Dyson, (Allen), of Ridge, MD, Carol Kennedy, (Michael), of Mt. Holly, VA and Sally Scheible, (Bruce), of Ridge, MD, also survived by 9 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren and dear friends and caregiver's Mary Ellen and Alan Mattingly.

A Memorial Mass was celebrated on Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12pm at St. Michael's Catholic Church, Ridge, MD with Father Lee Fangmeyer as the celebrant and Monsignor Karl Chimiak as con-celebrant. Interment was private.

Memorial contributions may be made to Monsignor Peacock Fund, P.O. Box 429, Ridge, MD 20680.

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.