Julia Channing Burton Taylor, 89, died Monday, January 12, 2015 at Kitty Askins Hospice Center, Goldsboro, NC. She was a native of Edenton, NC and was the daughter of the late Lloyd Channing Burton and Julia Layden Burton of Edenton. She was the granddaughter of the late Ethel Walt and Ida Thomas Burton, and Isaac and Mary Jones Layden also of Edenton. Julia was preceded in death by her husband of 51 years, Wiley Roberts Taylor, Jr. of Fairmont, NC; a brother, Lloyd Channing Burton, Jr. of Houston, TX; two half-sisters, Sara Burton Wilson and Mary Arrington Burton Bunch, both of Edenton. Julia was a graduate of Edenton High School and Greensboro College. She was an elementary school teacher in Fairmont, NC and Charleston, SC. She was a music teacher and an active member of the music programs of Trinity United Methodist Church of Fairmont, and John Wesley United Methodist Church of Charleston, SC. She was a past member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society of Women Educators and the Music Teachers National Guild. Julia is survived by a daughter, Nancy Lloyd Bogue (Ronnie) of Fremont, NC; two sons, Wiley Roberts Taylor, III (Jeanne) of Aynor, SC and Richard Burton Taylor (Anne) of Augusta, GA; five grandchildren, Cameron Sterling Schupp, Graham Roberts Taylor (Cassie), Rebecca Taylor Miner (Neil), Mary Channing Huffman (Jay), and Alexander Burton Taylor; and three great-grandchildren, Jackson Wyatt Taylor, Temperance Elizabeth Taylor, and Ella Wright Huffman. In lieu of flowers memorials may be sent to Fairmont Border Belt Museum, 101 Thompson Street, Fairmont, NC 28340 or Fairmont Trinity United Methodist Church, 307 Trinity Street, Fairmont, NC 28340.