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December 3, 2013 Timi Torello – Facebook Page
The world lost a beautiful person today! She wasn't rich and famous she didn't drive fancy cars and she won't be the top news story...
But...she was...Smart, funny, talented, creative, selfless, generous, beautiful, loving, kind, loyal, and courageous!!! And, for that, you will be loved and missed by many!! Rest in peace and please tell my Aunt Linda that we love her and miss her too!! May the two of you enjoy everlasting peace!!!
Avtar Khalsa It is with great sadness that I report Timi Torello passed away at 3am this morning. She had been in a lot of pain, and recently said she was ready to go. I'll share more as I hear.
Marcia Gallagher Oh no. I am so saddened to hear this.
Kathryn McDowell Oh Avtar. Thank you for letting us know. This is very sad. I'm so happy I got to visit with her a bit in 2011 at our reunion. Kathryn
Marcia Gallagher I talked to Art today. He suggested donations could be made to the M.S. Society or the Kidney Foundation . No memorial service is planned.
Tucker Wardwell Avtar,
I'm so sorry to hear this sad news. I knew she had been ill for such a long, long time. It's a relief to know that she is no longer suffering in that body, and is in a much better place. Thank you so much for sharing this, and further info re: her path. Tucker
Greg Davis So sorry to hear this
Susan Shull Hammond This news is so so sad. She was a great gal and will be missed. Yes, thank you for sharing, Avtar.
Marcia Gallagher This is the donation site for National MS Society.
Kathryn McDowell Blessings, Dear Timi. Thank you for your presence on this leg of our journey.
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Avtar Khalsa ((formerly Randy Burt)
Timi was a very special friend to me (and many others) during a very special time. We got to know one another while working on the school newspaper. While in highschool Timi, Marcia Moritz and Jim King lived near one another in the same small apartment complex. Beginning in the summer of 69, Timi's apartment became a social hub for many of us. That continued no matter where she and her mother moved. She was like a sister to many of us, and wherever she lived was like a second home.
She expanded my musical tastes. I think she gave me my first albums by John Hartford and Gordon Lightfoot, then later Laura Nero. She sent me the lyrics to Nero's song "He's a Runner," with a note that said, "This is you, babe."
She began dating Dennis Damore, who has been one of my best friends since 1965,. Early in the summer of 70, Dennis went to Colorado for a 6-week Outward Bound course. By then Timi was living in a little cottage in Mesa and attending summer school at ASU. She didn't have a car at the time. So each morning I would drive from Scottsdale to Mesa, pick up Timi, take her to ASU, then drive to Sunnyslope to get to my job at a tire store by 8am. There wasn't as much traffic then, but there weren't many freeways, either. Later that summer, Timi and I drove to Denver to visit Marcia. I felt like a bit of a third wheel, as the two of them had been such good friends for years. But we had a great trip.
For a few years, Don McMullen lived in a tiny little house on the corner of Hayden and McKillips, A bunch of us (Don, Dennis, Timi, Buffalo, me, and others), would gather there on weekend nights, playing cards or just haning out. In many ways, they were family to me then. That's the way I remember us.
Marcia Moritz (Gallagher)
Thanks for those memories, Avtar. Timi was a special friend to me and I miss her still. She seemed to struggle with her confidence and underestimate herself. She had more challenges in her life than most of the kids I knew then, but she was a beautiful person.