Welcome Message from our President,
Roger Taylor Russell

As the President of the Taylor Family Association (TFA), I welcome you to the TFA website. I hope you’ll consider membership is this great family research organization. Please Sign-In or Register here. As the President, let me introduce myself.  I am Roger Taylor Russell, a son of Lois Taylor, grandson of Orson Shurtliff Taylor, and great grandson of Pleasant Green Taylor & Jane Narcissus Shurtliff. I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, graduated from the University of Utah and went on to the University of Nebraska to receive my dental degree.

I served an LDS mission from 1960-1963 in Germany. I married Kathie Belliston just before I graduated from dental school. After graduation I went immediately into the United States Air Force as a captain stationed at Clark Air Force Base Hospital in the Philippines. This was a wonderful two years for us. We called it our two-year honeymoon. Also, our first child was born there, Kristin Russell McQuivey. After two years we returned home and set up a practice in Salt Lake. Two more children were born: Matthew Taylor Russell and Andrew Belliston Russell. Kathie and I were married 25 years before she passed. She was a wonderful wife and mother, but she suffered so much with an auto immune disease. She had a liver transplant, she lost her colon — she had too many problems to mention. Two years after Kathie passed, I married Nancy Muhlestein Swaner.

I have been very active over the years in scouting and working with the young men in my church. I have been scoutmaster nine times, two of those times were with inner city troops. I was awarded the Silver Beaver in 1991. I am currently serving at the University of Utah Hospital and Huntsman Cancer church branches. I have had this calling for the last seven years and absolutely love serving the patients there.

I recently returned from a dental humanitarian trip to Nairobi, Kenya. We were able to do dental work on the orphans in the slums there. I have also served on other humanitarian trips to Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru. I still practice dentistry full time and love helping those in need. My life is good.

We’d love to have you join the Association and participate with us. Please Sign-In or Register here.  

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