Tony Taylor was a Charlotte father of four who treated everyone he met like family, his nephew, Stephen Barbour, said.
“Uncle Tony was a friend to everyone,” Barbour recalled on the GoFundMe he started for Taylor’s wife, Sandy Lucille Taylor, and the couple’s children.
Taylor, 62, died when a neighbor’s tree fell during Helene on his family’s home on Brookway Drive, in northwest Charlotte’s historic Hoskins neighborhood.
A 4-year-old girl and a 58-year-old man died in wrecks on Helene-slickened Charlotte-area roads.
Although Taylor’s wife and four children survived, “the loss of such a kind and loving man has left a profound void,” Barbour said on the GoFundMe site.
“For some time, we had been trying to get the tree removed, but since it wasn’t on our property, there was little we could do,” he said.
“Now, we are left not only to mourn the loss of a man whose smile could light up any room but also to support his grieving family through this incredibly difficult time,” Barbour said.