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OBITUARY -- Dora Taylor
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Jul 13, 2007 10:50am |
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| Media | Newspaper - San Francisco Chronicle |
| News Date | Saturday, June 21, 1997 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Dora M. Taylor, widow of former U.S. Senator Glen Taylor and a resident of San Mateo County for 39 years, died Monday at the Karina Care Home in Foster City. She was 93.
Mrs. Taylor and her husband moved to Millbrae from Idaho in 1958 and began manufacturing and selling men's hairpieces -- the famed Taylor Toppers -- out of a collection of small buildings on El Camino Real.
The Taylor Topper was the first major commercial mass-market men's toupee made outside of Hollywood -- and it was the forerunner of what is now a multimillion dollar hair-replacement market.
But it had its humble beginnings in the kitchen of the Taylors' home in Pocatello, Idaho, in the early 1940s when the balding Democrat decided his hair loss was making him look too old to campaign for the Senate. |
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