Paul Joseph Gaylor Jr.

Madison - Paul Joseph Gaylor Jr. (Jody) was born August 30, 1926 in Springfield, Missouri, the oldest of three children of Paul Joseph Gaylor Sr. and Irma Fairman Gaylor. He was 84; his death on Thursday, May 5, 2011, was from cancer of the brain.
A World War II Navy veteran, he graduated from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri in 1949, and did graduate work at the University of Kansas City. He was active in athletics, especially boxing. He married Anne Nicol on Dec. 29, 1949 in Springfield; they lived in Madison since 1952.
He was publisher of weekly newspaper, the Middleton Times Tribune in the 1960's, and was vice-president for several years of a building maintenance company in Madison. He was a board member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). After retirement, he took over household duties. He was a skilled cook and baker and presided over special ""family dinners.""
He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Anne, and by four children: Andrew, Edgerton; twins Ian and Annie Laurie, Madison, and Jamie, Portland, Oregon. He also is survived by two much-loved granddaughters, Sabrina Gaylor and Lily Anne Gaylor; a son-in-law Dan Barker, Madison; three daughters-in-law, Lisa Strand, Edgerton, Nancy McClements, Madison, and Carrie Gaylor, Portland Oregon.
A sister, Margaret Gaylor Babunovic of Huntsville, Alabama, also survives. His younger brother, Richard, died in childhood.
Jody chose cremation with burial of ashes in a family plot. Memorials may be made to FFRF, P.O. Box 750, Madison, WI 53701.