Thanks so much to Jan for fulfilling my photo request 11/6/21
Tony is buried beside his cousin Max Rylander
ABINGDON -- Services for Tony Paul Taylor, 21, of rural Abingdon, who was pronounced dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, 1992, in Warren County, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Larson Funeral Home in Abingdon. The Rev.John Carlson will officiate.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Abingdon Cemetery.
He was found dead Friday inside his car, parked in an abandoned Lenox Township garage.
He was born April 21, 1971, in Galesburg to Mike "Merrill" and Rita Asher Taylor.
He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Rita and Tom Anderson of rural Abingdon; his father and stepmother, Mike and Mary Taylor of Abingdon; one brother, Michael of Berwick; grandparents, Ed and Phyllis Asher of Galesburg and Fred and Doris Taylor of Berwick; one great- grandmother, Doris Bush of Knoxville; one nephew; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was employed for three years at Hi-Lo Grocery, and had been working at Feys Processing Service, both in Abingdon.
A 1989 graduate of Abingdon High School, he was a former Berwick resident and had also attended schools in Roseville.
May 3, 1992 | Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) Page: C14 | Section: OBITUARIES
Angelic Wilmouth/Joe West
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COUSIN'S DEATH HAUNTS MAN TO GRAVE ABINGDON MAN BLAMED SELF FOR 1991 CRASH THAT KILLED THREE MONMOUTH COLLEGE STUDENTS
NewspaperMay 16, 1992 | Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) Author: LORI TIMM | Page: A1 | Section: STATE
As children, Tony Taylor and Max Rylander loved to draw pictures and play together. The cousins grew up, went to school and ran around as a pair until Max died last year in a car crash.
The two now are side by side in Abingdon Cemetery.
A year of grief and guilt culminated in Tony's suicide two weeks ago because he felt responsible for Max's death, a family member said.
A Warren County coroner's jury on Friday ruled that Tony, 21, killed himself when he covered broken windows in the secluded rural garage where he and Max used to go, started his car and was overcome by carbon monoxide.
Max, 19, died May 9, 1991, after a crash in rural Warren County claimed him and two other Monmouth College students. The driver of the car apparently didn't see a stop sign at a county intersection and slammed into a pickup truck.
But Tony felt he caused the accident -- even though he wasn't in the area at the time -- through a long-distance telephone conversation, his mother said. "All the (college students) came to my house that afternoon to talk to Tony (on the phone)," said Rita Anderson of Abingdon. "After a while, I took the phone because they were running a little late and had to leave . . . about 15 to 20 minutes later they had the accident," she said.
Max and his friends had called to encourage Tony, who had just returned to the Navy after he spent three weeks on unauthorized leave.
"He blamed himself for the death," Anderson said. "He said If I wouldn't have kept them on the phone that little bit longer . . . I caused it. ' "I told him, It was God's will, honey,' but he wouldn't believe me. After a while, he wouldn't talk about it at all anymore and it scared me."
Clues that Tony was aching for Max emerged as the one- year anniversary of the accident approached. Tony said Max was part of his dreams. And Tony mentioned he'd been going out to his cousin's grave every day to leave special gifts like sunglasses and Mountain Dew, things they had shared, Anderson said.
"But nobody realized Tony was hurting inside," his mother said.' The last week (he was alive) he said, 'Mom, why did it happen? Why did it have to happen to him? ' But it never registered to me he would do something like this."
Tony, who got a discharge from the military because of epileptic seizures, was living with Anderson and working at a local business. On Wednesday, April 29, he left work for a lunch break about 12:30 p.m. and never returned, she said.
That night passed, and another. Anderson said she was even more frightened when she found a note in Tony's typewriter and saw something else.
"He had pictures of the boys and of the accident spread out on his bed. That's when I knew," she said.
When police couldn't find Tony's car, Anderson called one of his friends to check on any secluded places her son might have gone. She learned of an abandoned farmhouse on the Berwick blacktop and relatives found Tony there on Friday, May 1. His car was silent, although there was still one-quarter of a tank of gas in it.
"The theory is because antifreeze was found on the floor of the garage, that perhaps the car overheated and stalled," Warren County Coroner William Hoover said Friday.
But Anderson believes differently.
"When God has it planned out for you, he has it planned out for you . . . He said, 'Tony, you've had enough, I'm going to take you now. You don't need to suffer no more. ' "
obit and article shared by JMW #47184656 9/15/19
Tony is buried beside his cousin Max Rylander
ABINGDON -- Services for Tony Paul Taylor, 21, of rural Abingdon, who was pronounced dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, 1992, in Warren County, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Larson Funeral Home in Abingdon. The Rev.John Carlson will officiate.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Abingdon Cemetery.
He was found dead Friday inside his car, parked in an abandoned Lenox Township garage.
He was born April 21, 1971, in Galesburg to Mike "Merrill" and Rita Asher Taylor.
He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Rita and Tom Anderson of rural Abingdon; his father and stepmother, Mike and Mary Taylor of Abingdon; one brother, Michael of Berwick; grandparents, Ed and Phyllis Asher of Galesburg and Fred and Doris Taylor of Berwick; one great- grandmother, Doris Bush of Knoxville; one nephew; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was employed for three years at Hi-Lo Grocery, and had been working at Feys Processing Service, both in Abingdon.
A 1989 graduate of Abingdon High School, he was a former Berwick resident and had also attended schools in Roseville.
May 3, 1992 | Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) Page: C14 | Section: OBITUARIES
Angelic Wilmouth/Joe West
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COUSIN'S DEATH HAUNTS MAN TO GRAVE ABINGDON MAN BLAMED SELF FOR 1991 CRASH THAT KILLED THREE MONMOUTH COLLEGE STUDENTS
NewspaperMay 16, 1992 | Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) Author: LORI TIMM | Page: A1 | Section: STATE
As children, Tony Taylor and Max Rylander loved to draw pictures and play together. The cousins grew up, went to school and ran around as a pair until Max died last year in a car crash.
The two now are side by side in Abingdon Cemetery.
A year of grief and guilt culminated in Tony's suicide two weeks ago because he felt responsible for Max's death, a family member said.
A Warren County coroner's jury on Friday ruled that Tony, 21, killed himself when he covered broken windows in the secluded rural garage where he and Max used to go, started his car and was overcome by carbon monoxide.
Max, 19, died May 9, 1991, after a crash in rural Warren County claimed him and two other Monmouth College students. The driver of the car apparently didn't see a stop sign at a county intersection and slammed into a pickup truck.
But Tony felt he caused the accident -- even though he wasn't in the area at the time -- through a long-distance telephone conversation, his mother said. "All the (college students) came to my house that afternoon to talk to Tony (on the phone)," said Rita Anderson of Abingdon. "After a while, I took the phone because they were running a little late and had to leave . . . about 15 to 20 minutes later they had the accident," she said.
Max and his friends had called to encourage Tony, who had just returned to the Navy after he spent three weeks on unauthorized leave.
"He blamed himself for the death," Anderson said. "He said If I wouldn't have kept them on the phone that little bit longer . . . I caused it. ' "I told him, It was God's will, honey,' but he wouldn't believe me. After a while, he wouldn't talk about it at all anymore and it scared me."
Clues that Tony was aching for Max emerged as the one- year anniversary of the accident approached. Tony said Max was part of his dreams. And Tony mentioned he'd been going out to his cousin's grave every day to leave special gifts like sunglasses and Mountain Dew, things they had shared, Anderson said.
"But nobody realized Tony was hurting inside," his mother said.' The last week (he was alive) he said, 'Mom, why did it happen? Why did it have to happen to him? ' But it never registered to me he would do something like this."
Tony, who got a discharge from the military because of epileptic seizures, was living with Anderson and working at a local business. On Wednesday, April 29, he left work for a lunch break about 12:30 p.m. and never returned, she said.
That night passed, and another. Anderson said she was even more frightened when she found a note in Tony's typewriter and saw something else.
"He had pictures of the boys and of the accident spread out on his bed. That's when I knew," she said.
When police couldn't find Tony's car, Anderson called one of his friends to check on any secluded places her son might have gone. She learned of an abandoned farmhouse on the Berwick blacktop and relatives found Tony there on Friday, May 1. His car was silent, although there was still one-quarter of a tank of gas in it.
"The theory is because antifreeze was found on the floor of the garage, that perhaps the car overheated and stalled," Warren County Coroner William Hoover said Friday.
But Anderson believes differently.
"When God has it planned out for you, he has it planned out for you . . . He said, 'Tony, you've had enough, I'm going to take you now. You don't need to suffer no more. ' "
obit and article shared by JMW #47184656 9/15/19
Thanks so much to Jan for fulfilling my photo request 11/6/21
Tony is buried beside his cousin Max Rylander
ABINGDON -- Services for Tony Paul Taylor, 21, of rural Abingdon, who was pronounced dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, 1992, in Warren County, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Larson Funeral Home in Abingdon. The Rev.John Carlson will officiate.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Abingdon Cemetery.
He was found dead Friday inside his car, parked in an abandoned Lenox Township garage.
He was born April 21, 1971, in Galesburg to Mike "Merrill" and Rita Asher Taylor.
He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Rita and Tom Anderson of rural Abingdon; his father and stepmother, Mike and Mary Taylor of Abingdon; one brother, Michael of Berwick; grandparents, Ed and Phyllis Asher of Galesburg and Fred and Doris Taylor of Berwick; one great- grandmother, Doris Bush of Knoxville; one nephew; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was employed for three years at Hi-Lo Grocery, and had been working at Feys Processing Service, both in Abingdon.
A 1989 graduate of Abingdon High School, he was a former Berwick resident and had also attended schools in Roseville.
May 3, 1992 | Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) Page: C14 | Section: OBITUARIES
Angelic Wilmouth/Joe West
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COUSIN'S DEATH HAUNTS MAN TO GRAVE ABINGDON MAN BLAMED SELF FOR 1991 CRASH THAT KILLED THREE MONMOUTH COLLEGE STUDENTS
NewspaperMay 16, 1992 | Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) Author: LORI TIMM | Page: A1 | Section: STATE
As children, Tony Taylor and Max Rylander loved to draw pictures and play together. The cousins grew up, went to school and ran around as a pair until Max died last year in a car crash.
The two now are side by side in Abingdon Cemetery.
A year of grief and guilt culminated in Tony's suicide two weeks ago because he felt responsible for Max's death, a family member said.
A Warren County coroner's jury on Friday ruled that Tony, 21, killed himself when he covered broken windows in the secluded rural garage where he and Max used to go, started his car and was overcome by carbon monoxide.
Max, 19, died May 9, 1991, after a crash in rural Warren County claimed him and two other Monmouth College students. The driver of the car apparently didn't see a stop sign at a county intersection and slammed into a pickup truck.
But Tony felt he caused the accident -- even though he wasn't in the area at the time -- through a long-distance telephone conversation, his mother said. "All the (college students) came to my house that afternoon to talk to Tony (on the phone)," said Rita Anderson of Abingdon. "After a while, I took the phone because they were running a little late and had to leave . . . about 15 to 20 minutes later they had the accident," she said.
Max and his friends had called to encourage Tony, who had just returned to the Navy after he spent three weeks on unauthorized leave.
"He blamed himself for the death," Anderson said. "He said If I wouldn't have kept them on the phone that little bit longer . . . I caused it. ' "I told him, It was God's will, honey,' but he wouldn't believe me. After a while, he wouldn't talk about it at all anymore and it scared me."
Clues that Tony was aching for Max emerged as the one- year anniversary of the accident approached. Tony said Max was part of his dreams. And Tony mentioned he'd been going out to his cousin's grave every day to leave special gifts like sunglasses and Mountain Dew, things they had shared, Anderson said.
"But nobody realized Tony was hurting inside," his mother said.' The last week (he was alive) he said, 'Mom, why did it happen? Why did it have to happen to him? ' But it never registered to me he would do something like this."
Tony, who got a discharge from the military because of epileptic seizures, was living with Anderson and working at a local business. On Wednesday, April 29, he left work for a lunch break about 12:30 p.m. and never returned, she said.
That night passed, and another. Anderson said she was even more frightened when she found a note in Tony's typewriter and saw something else.
"He had pictures of the boys and of the accident spread out on his bed. That's when I knew," she said.
When police couldn't find Tony's car, Anderson called one of his friends to check on any secluded places her son might have gone. She learned of an abandoned farmhouse on the Berwick blacktop and relatives found Tony there on Friday, May 1. His car was silent, although there was still one-quarter of a tank of gas in it.
"The theory is because antifreeze was found on the floor of the garage, that perhaps the car overheated and stalled," Warren County Coroner William Hoover said Friday.
But Anderson believes differently.
"When God has it planned out for you, he has it planned out for you . . . He said, 'Tony, you've had enough, I'm going to take you now. You don't need to suffer no more. ' "
obit and article shared by JMW #47184656 9/15/19
Tony is buried beside his cousin Max Rylander
ABINGDON -- Services for Tony Paul Taylor, 21, of rural Abingdon, who was pronounced dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, 1992, in Warren County, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Larson Funeral Home in Abingdon. The Rev.John Carlson will officiate.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Abingdon Cemetery.
He was found dead Friday inside his car, parked in an abandoned Lenox Township garage.
He was born April 21, 1971, in Galesburg to Mike "Merrill" and Rita Asher Taylor.
He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Rita and Tom Anderson of rural Abingdon; his father and stepmother, Mike and Mary Taylor of Abingdon; one brother, Michael of Berwick; grandparents, Ed and Phyllis Asher of Galesburg and Fred and Doris Taylor of Berwick; one great- grandmother, Doris Bush of Knoxville; one nephew; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was employed for three years at Hi-Lo Grocery, and had been working at Feys Processing Service, both in Abingdon.
A 1989 graduate of Abingdon High School, he was a former Berwick resident and had also attended schools in Roseville.
May 3, 1992 | Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) Page: C14 | Section: OBITUARIES
Angelic Wilmouth/Joe West
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COUSIN'S DEATH HAUNTS MAN TO GRAVE ABINGDON MAN BLAMED SELF FOR 1991 CRASH THAT KILLED THREE MONMOUTH COLLEGE STUDENTS
NewspaperMay 16, 1992 | Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) Author: LORI TIMM | Page: A1 | Section: STATE
As children, Tony Taylor and Max Rylander loved to draw pictures and play together. The cousins grew up, went to school and ran around as a pair until Max died last year in a car crash.
The two now are side by side in Abingdon Cemetery.
A year of grief and guilt culminated in Tony's suicide two weeks ago because he felt responsible for Max's death, a family member said.
A Warren County coroner's jury on Friday ruled that Tony, 21, killed himself when he covered broken windows in the secluded rural garage where he and Max used to go, started his car and was overcome by carbon monoxide.
Max, 19, died May 9, 1991, after a crash in rural Warren County claimed him and two other Monmouth College students. The driver of the car apparently didn't see a stop sign at a county intersection and slammed into a pickup truck.
But Tony felt he caused the accident -- even though he wasn't in the area at the time -- through a long-distance telephone conversation, his mother said. "All the (college students) came to my house that afternoon to talk to Tony (on the phone)," said Rita Anderson of Abingdon. "After a while, I took the phone because they were running a little late and had to leave . . . about 15 to 20 minutes later they had the accident," she said.
Max and his friends had called to encourage Tony, who had just returned to the Navy after he spent three weeks on unauthorized leave.
"He blamed himself for the death," Anderson said. "He said If I wouldn't have kept them on the phone that little bit longer . . . I caused it. ' "I told him, It was God's will, honey,' but he wouldn't believe me. After a while, he wouldn't talk about it at all anymore and it scared me."
Clues that Tony was aching for Max emerged as the one- year anniversary of the accident approached. Tony said Max was part of his dreams. And Tony mentioned he'd been going out to his cousin's grave every day to leave special gifts like sunglasses and Mountain Dew, things they had shared, Anderson said.
"But nobody realized Tony was hurting inside," his mother said.' The last week (he was alive) he said, 'Mom, why did it happen? Why did it have to happen to him? ' But it never registered to me he would do something like this."
Tony, who got a discharge from the military because of epileptic seizures, was living with Anderson and working at a local business. On Wednesday, April 29, he left work for a lunch break about 12:30 p.m. and never returned, she said.
That night passed, and another. Anderson said she was even more frightened when she found a note in Tony's typewriter and saw something else.
"He had pictures of the boys and of the accident spread out on his bed. That's when I knew," she said.
When police couldn't find Tony's car, Anderson called one of his friends to check on any secluded places her son might have gone. She learned of an abandoned farmhouse on the Berwick blacktop and relatives found Tony there on Friday, May 1. His car was silent, although there was still one-quarter of a tank of gas in it.
"The theory is because antifreeze was found on the floor of the garage, that perhaps the car overheated and stalled," Warren County Coroner William Hoover said Friday.
But Anderson believes differently.
"When God has it planned out for you, he has it planned out for you . . . He said, 'Tony, you've had enough, I'm going to take you now. You don't need to suffer no more. ' "
obit and article shared by JMW #47184656 9/15/19
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