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R.I.P., Todd. My heart is in my throat.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53700046-90/taylor-holbrook-democratic-party.html.csp
Services Monday for Democratic stalwart Todd Taylor
Funeral » Longtime Democratic director Todd Taylor to be remembered by colleagues, friends.
Those who knew Todd Taylor told stories for hours, filling the auditorium with sustained laughter and soft sobs but, when it was over, nothing seemed to match the hard silence of more than 300 people watching the casket wheeled off the stage.
"I don’t think the reality has sunk in yet," his brother, Lamarr Taylor, said. "It might hit us later."
The 42-year-old had just finished speaking at a memorial service held at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Monday afternoon for his brother, who died last week in his sleep at the home he shared with his parents in Bountiful.
He was 46.
His death shook the Utah State Democratic Party to its core — a testament to the institutional knowledge Taylor carried with him as the nation’s longest-serving Democratic Party executive director.
Wayne Holland, former Democratic State Party chairman, told the crowd what is already being chiseled in state political lore — that Taylor was born in the building that would eventually become the Utah Democratic Party headquarters.
But Holland also tried to quantify the loss for the party.
"The towering piles of paper on his desk showed it," Holland said. "Yet he could somehow put his hands on any piece of information he needed within 15 seconds."
Taylor began his political career by helping J. Dell Holbrook get elected to the Davis County Commission in the late ’80s. It was the first time a Democrat had held that position in decades.
Holbrook regaled the mourners with tales, drawing on the wide breadth of Taylor’s political savvy, friendship and even his background as a chiropractor.
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edited to hide my lack of reading comprehension 
The 42-year-old had just finished speaking at a memorial service held at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Monday afternoon for his brother, who died last week in his sleep at the home he shared with his parents in Bountiful.
He was 46.
so sad.
aA
The 42 year old is Lamarr, who spoke at his brother's funeral, and was being interviewed.
I read it twice ... I was feeling really badly for the family
Not that losing one son isn't bad enough.
thanks for clarifying.
aA
kesha
I wish there was something more than a virtual hug that I could do.
Todd was a great guy. It's surreal he's gone and only at 46!
That both sons had died. And I am not even taking pain meds 
It is always so hard, losing someone so young, my heart goes out to the family.
