Taber Family Support

Please help support our dear friend Kiplin’s family through this difficult time. Kiplin’s brother Quint, a decorated Green Beret, passed away tragically during a military training exercise. The funds raised are for Kiplin and others close to Quint who may need assistance associated with travel and work absences. Residual funds will be donated to Quint's choices of charities. Any funds raised are being directly sent to Kip through GoFundMe. Everything about this is awful, our love and support is much appreciated.

~A tribute to our son, George L. Taber V (Quint)~

What can be said when you lose your son; that this is a father and mother’s worst

nightmare is no hyperbole. The natural order of life should not allow any parent

to have to bury their child. Yet it happens all too often, and those parents share a

common bond of grief beyond words and comprehension. In the military this is

an exclusive club that no one wants to be a member of because the cost of

membership is incomparably high—A Gold Star family.

On Tuesday, August 9th, 2022, our precious son, Staff Sergeant George L Taber V

(Quint) was killed during a weather-related training accident while at the

“Mountain phase” of the grueling Army Ranger school in the mountains of N.

Georgia. Training operations were paused, and soldiers were sheltering in place

to allow a severe storm to pass when a tree fell in heavy winds killing Quint and a

fellow soldier, Evan Fitzgibbon. Three other soldiers were also wounded. An

arbitrary act of nature killed our son who was a force of nature. He was thirty

years young.

The consolation of a parents’ heart is that after college and some searching, Quint

without a doubt was living out his calling and had found his tribe in the Army

Special Forces community. He reveled in challenging himself and proving himself

daily. He flourished in operating within a team of high performers. He died doing

what he loved and was good at, surrounded by others with the same high drive

and standards. That is the highest accomplishment of a man whether he be

eighty or thirty.

Rest in peace son. You have lived life well and full. We will miss you every day for

the rest of our lives, but we can learn from your example and maximize every day

we have remaining in our lives, not shirking the hard things yet appreciating the

small things. You have turned the table on the natural order of life, and you will

be expectantly waiting for us with a huge grin and giving us the grand tour of

heaven when we have finished our race. We so look forward to that day when

you personally introduce us to our heavenly Father. Until then you continue to be

our shining light and inspiration. We miss you and we love you always.

George L Taber IV (Tab) and LaNell Taber, Sheri and Trey Coker

Kiplin, Geoffrey, Wesley, Grant- Siblings

❤️8/12/22 UPDATE❤️: A page has been started on Caring Bridge where service details and updates from George (Quint's) family will be posted. Thank you all for your continued outpouring of love and support!

https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/georgetabervquint

Press Release:

https://www.today.com/parents/parents/decorated-green-beret-dies-military-training-accident-rcna43050