Services will be held Friday September 4, 2015 at 2:00 pm at the CrossPointe Church, Mooreland, Oklahoma. Graveside will be held Saturday September 5, 2015 at 10:30 am at the Highland Cemetery, Ashland, Kansas.

Visitation:
Wednesday ~ 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ~ At Shaw Funeral Home, Vici
Thursday ~ 9:00 am to 7:00 pm ~ At CrossPointe Church, Mooreland
Friday ~ 9:00 am to 1:30 pm ~ At CrossPointe Church, Mooreland

Lot Forman Taylor II, 76, of Woodward, OK passed away August 30, 2015 at the Grace Living Center. Lot was born on June 30, 1939 to Lot Forman Taylor and Ruth Irene (Smith) Taylor in El Dorado, KS. Lot's parents moved their family from Clay Center, KS to Manhattan, KS in 1948. He attended Bluemont Elementary and Manhattan High School. After graduation he spent three years in the Marine Corps stationed in the San Diego area. He was honorably discharged in June, 1960 as a Private First Class E-2. Lot and Loraine Marie Hoerman were married on February 14, 1960 in Manhattan, KS. In 1961 he decided to attend a four year program in Animal Husbandry at Kansas State University, and after only three and one half years he graduated making the Deans Honor Roll. After graduation Lot took over the building of Spillway Marina at Tuttle Creek Reservoir in Manhattan, KS. Over the next ten years, he built and ran the marina and became the principle owner. Tired of being at the mercy of the weather on the lake, Lot went back to school at Kansas State University where he earned a civil engineer degree in 1972. He joined a Great Bend firm and in 1975 opened a branch office in Garden City. In 1980 Lot purchased the branch office and soon became the largest engineering office in Kansas west of Wichita and was a licensed professional engineer and land surveyor in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Some of his biggest accomplishments included redesigning the ditch that drains most of the water for Garden City, designing a 160 acre subdivision, and converting a three hundred mobile home and housing subdivision from septic tanks to a sanitary system. Lot always thought it was rewarding driving through southwest Kansas, parts of Oklahoma and Colorado and seeing all his designs at work. In the 1980's Lot started farming at the ranch on the weekends, and this is where he kept his BIG FARM TOYS. He enjoyed farming and repairing vehicles and equipment as his hobbies. Lot opened Prairie Land Environmental Remediation, Inc. in 1990 and this is where he kept his other BIG TOYS which included two drilling rigs, a super sucker vacuum truck, dump truck, and a semi. In 1995 Lot opened an office in Woodward, OK and ran offices out of both Garden City and Woodward, and after 31 years of the Kansas office being open Lot finally closed it. Lot was a member of the Society of Kansas and Oklahoma Land Surveyors and an active member at the CrossPointe Church in Mooreland, OK where he served as a Trustee.
Lot is preceded in death by his parents Lot and Ruth Taylor and his sister Katherine Black.
Left to carry on his legacy is his wife Loraine Taylor of Woodward, OK; his daughter Kristin Marie Friesen and husband Al of Guthrie, OK; two grandsons Benjamin Friesen, Jacob Friesen and wife Alyssa; one granddaughter Sarah Dablemont and husband Alexandre; two cousins Charlene Smith and Marlene Smith; one great grandchild; many nieces, nephews, and friends.