Dale Taylor, 93, has been named grand marshal of the 2024 Urbanna Hometown Christmas Parade.
Taylor, a Deltaville native, moved to Urbanna 35 years ago when he married an Urbanna native, the late Beatrice Payne Taylor. They moved into the home Beatrice grew up in on Howard Street.
Taylor has a long maritime history connected to Middlesex County. His grandfather, Captain David Andrew Taylor, moved to Deltaville in the 1870s from Onancock on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. His grandfather was a “sailing man” who owned and captained freighting schooners.
