In Memory
Tyo Laurent (Tovar Sasser)
Hello! I hope you are doing well. My name is Victoria, and I'm the daughter of Tyo Laurent, class of 1982. She passed away in October 2021, and I was with her at the time. She passed away a few months after my last grandparent and my stepdad. Unfortunately, my dad also passed away a year or so after my mom.
With my parents gone, I don't have many photos of them since our house burned down in 2010. If anyone has photos, I would love to pay for copies and it would also be wonderful to hear any stories people might have about her. Could you please share my email with her classmates? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
Email: victoria.tovarn@gmail.com
Jeff Roeling
I was friends with Tyo in junior high. We were in an English class along with Marilyn Hare and the new kid, Kevin MacIntosh. Talking and joking around dwarfed the amount of time we actually spent paying attention to classroom instruction. Tyo was beautiful, brash, incredibly funny, and above all, always the "cool" chick.
But behind the tough facade there was a vulnerable girl. And there are storms we cannot weather.
Tyo, you may be gone, but you're not forgotten. Dear God I wish you had reached out to some of your childhood friends.
Tyo passed unexpectedly just weeks after her husband died of an extended battle with cancer.
Here's a few pictures from her facebook page: