When Velma Taggart was born on 1 November 1903, in Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, James Taggart, was 32 and her mother, Valeria Ann Laird, was 29. She married Thomas Wendell Bayles on 22 June 1932, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. She lived in Parowan Election Precinct, Iron, Utah, United States in 1940 and St. George, Washington, Utah, United States in 1950. In 1922, at the age of 21, her occupation is listed as taught school six years. She died on 14 January 1998, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Saint George City Cemetery, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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