CUNDY’S HARBOR – Helen Morrill Taylor, 87, of Cape Elizabeth and formerly of Cundy”s Harbor, died May 29, after a long illness.

She was born in Greene, a daughter of John Randall Morrill and Gladys Webber Moore. She was a grandniece of Col. Walter G. Morrill of the 20th Infantry Regiment of the Civil War.

She attended Auburn schools and graduated from Edward Little High School, Class of 1935, where she was a basketball standout and played “Little Audrey” in the class play.

In 1942, she married her childhood sweetheart, Richard A. Taylor. They lived in Auburn until the early 1950s and then moved to Cundy’s Harbor to raise their family.

Always an active volunteer, she was instrumental in the initial fundraising for Parkview Memorial Hospital, Harpswell Islands Fund for Advanced Education, and the Great Island Teenagers Group, among others.

She worked in the medical records department of Parkview Memorial Hospital for many years, retiring in the mid 1980s.

She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Brunswick church.

She is survived by her husband, Richard A. Taylor; daughters, Jan Taylor Corey of South Portland, Carole Taylor of Leominster, Mass., Susan Beebe of Portland and Pat Forte of San Francisco, Calif.; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents; a son, Richard “Ricky” A. Taylor Jr.; and her six siblings, Bernice Wolfsperger, Velma LeGoff, Wilma Edgecomb, Ruth Vining, Mildred Goodard and John Fenton Morrill.

The family would like to express their gratitude to the staff of the South Portland Nursing Home for their compassionate care, and to the VNS Hospice staff and volunteers, especially Sharon Bresler.