Over the next several weeks it is my ambition to interview each of our 167 members and publish a brief biographical sketch with photo here on our blog. I started with my good friend and business next door neighbor, Joe Taylor. Our offices adjoin in the Campus Plaza Suites off the Bypass behind Zaxby's. Joe has been our club treasurer for the past 11 or 12 years.Joe was born in Glasgow 24 Oct 1934 but moved as a young child to Tompkinsville. (Known as T-ville to Monroevians.) He was the middle of seven children. He has two younger brothers and a sister still living. Joe graduated from Tompkinsville High School in 1953 and worked for the next year with a brother and cousin in the War Claims Commission in Washington D.C. He had joined the National Guard while still in High School and served with them until 1961. He was discharged as a Sargent First Class.
For about five years from 1955 he worked for a rock quarry. He married Margaret Quinn from Jeffery in 1959. They have three children - Joe Jr. 43, Charles 37, and Mary 32. Joe and Margaret have four fine grandsons but one delightful granddaughter. A friend talked Joe into going to college in 1960 and he attended Bowling Green Business College now part of WKU. He graduated in 1963 and worked for J.C. Holland until 1969 then started a firm with David Snead and Joe Cook. He worked a short time for American National Bank before starting his own CPA firm in 1985.
Joe joined Rotary in 1983 and is a Paul Harris Fellow as are both sons. He enjoys sports and working in the yard. He is a charter member of Christ United Methodist church on Cave Mill Road and serves as treasurer of the Warren County Water District. He is the senior partner of Joe W. Taylor CPAs.
