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TAYLOR STOEHR Obituary

Stoehr, Taylor
Died Sept. 14, 2013. He is lovingly remembered by all his family, friends, the many students and colleagues from his years of teaching, the Gestalt Therapy Community, the probationers whose lives he touched, the garden groups and poetry groups he inspired, the readers of his many books and poems, and all those he met in his daily life. His interest in people was insatiable and in his heart he included us all, recognizing and valuing us as we do him. We will be celebrating his life at a Memorial in July of 2014.

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Published by Boston Globe from Sep. 20 to Sep. 22, 2013.

Memories and Condolences
for TAYLOR STOEHR

18 Entries

Margaret

November 26, 2024

Just seeing this place to share. I´m reading through Taylor´s verses to a mutual friend who I helped look after in her last years. He knowing her forever, sent uplifting letters and poems for her reading and her memories. They sustained us all. Thankful I got to know this kind and generous person the last few years of his life. Rest in peace. Never forgotten. Blessings.

Thompson

July 21, 2024

Great man

Anne Garton

April 8, 2022

I remember his kindness while in grad school at UMASS Boston. I corresponded with him after I went to Canada for my ph. D. I still have the texts we studied in his seminar. What a kind and generous man and teacher.

Rob Dixon

October 21, 2020

Taylor was a great teacher, mentor, and friend. His love and commitment to humanity and his students was infectious. He saw potential in me that changed my life. I became a teacher because of him and hope I have had the impact on students that he did on me. I think of him often and will always cherish my relationship with him and UMass Boston.

Rose Zhao

October 19, 2018

He is very friendly and helpful. He loves Chinese poems. I remember that he said he liked Chinese Qingming Festival because it is the festival to remember the ancestors.

Gordon Wheeler

March 16, 2018

Getting this inbox notice of a new entry on Taylor's page is such a lovely reminder of Taylor. Not that I need reminding -- I think of him often, and always when I'm in Cambridge, which at this age slowly (or not so slowly) empties of people I have loved and still do love. Such a wonderful man, and such a wonderful friend.

Lisa Millimet

March 15, 2018

I did not 'know' Taylor, but in seeing him speak in the documentary on Paul Goodman, I got a sense of his humanity, class, and compassion. I looked him up to see if I could meet him. Sad to say, no. My late condolences for this lovely human.

December 11, 2016

Taylor was a great man. No more to say.

Nikki Brewer

September 19, 2016

Tonight I went to google one of my favorite professors from my time at UMASS Boston, and here I find his obituary. I took at least four classes of his classes in 2 years, which speaks to how much I enjoyed him as a professor. Somedays, if I was lucky I would see him on the shuttle or the T, and I loved our chats.
I think of him as a Mr. Rogers because he was so kind in his teachings. Yet, the stories from his past make him seem like he was too much of an activist to be a Mr. Rogers.
To his family, know he is remembered for his kindness and goodness.

Jeff & Lauren Wright

April 30, 2014

Thinking of everybody, wishing we hadn't lost touch.
R.I.P. Uncle Taylor

Stephen Wing

November 4, 2013

I have corresponded with Taylor off and on since 1987, and am so disappointed that he is gone before I got to meet him! I will always be grateful for his support and encouragement as a fellow writer. Go in peace, Taylor; you've earned it.

Linda and Steve Graves

October 7, 2013

We in Otis, MA are very fortunate to have crossed paths with Taylor. Up to the end, we played vigorous ping pong, enjoyed weekly gardening activities, and learned from Taylor how to be strong and gentle, compassionate and kind.

Jean Trounstine

September 26, 2013

I loved Taylor and knew him through Changing Lives. And he changed many. What a wonderful mind and heart.

Me and my daughter Celia

Zak Longo

September 25, 2013

Taylor was my mentor and I looked up to him throughout by years at UMASS. We lost touch over the past 3 years, although he continued to pen pal with my brother in prison. I wish i could have been there to see him off. Fair winds old friend. The world is less off without you.

Anne McGrail

September 24, 2013

I'm so sad that Taylor isn't happily living in the woods in Otis, as I had imagined him these last couple years. Taylor inspired and supported me through the 80s, helped me when I was in grad school in the 90s, and was a faraway friend since I moved out to Oregon. I will miss him even tho' I haven't seen him for 2 years.

Alex Dickey

September 23, 2013

For Taylor, friend and fellow poet.

William Barnes

September 22, 2013

For the last three years Taylor was a mainstay of the Creative Writing Group at Gould Farm in Monterey, Massachusetts. I was intimidated by him at first - a scholar, author of many books and a professor, Taylor was definitely a big fish in a small pond - but I quickly came to know him as an enouraging friend, not a teacher. Taylor's great contribution was finding the best points in our work and praising them in a way that made us want to write more and better. He was a good friend. We will miss him very much. I would like to attend his memorial.

John Shanahan

September 21, 2013

I was one of many students who had Taylor Stoehr for Freshman English at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He was helpful, fair, and gave me the confidence to be able to write an intelligent and cogent essay.

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