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Vail Daily page A8 - March 19, 2010
Taylor Storch, 1996-2010
March 19, 2010
Taylor Storch, 13, passed away on Monday at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction from injuries sustained in a skiing accident in Vail, Colorado. Taylor was born April 19, 1996, in Richardson, Texas, to Tara and Todd Storch. She was a student at Coppell Middle School East, an avid volleyball player, and a member of the Victory Volleyball Club (14 Nationals).
Taylor’s spirit was Christ-filled. She was full of love, had a passion for music, friends, fun and laughter, and most of all she had a passion for God. She was extremely giving and continues to give through organ donations that have saved the lives of several other people.
Taylor is survived by her parents, Todd and Tara; brother Ryan; sister Peyton; grandparents Bernie and Joan Taylor, Danny and Joan Storch, and Gay Storch; aunts and uncles Bill and Sandi Taylor, Kary and Juli Taylor, Chris and Wendy Taylor and Terry and Robin Storch; and many other aunts, uncles, cousins and close friends.
Funeral services will be held at St. Ann Catholic Parish on Tuesday, 180 Samuel Boulevard, Coppell, Texas 75019. The Rosary will be said at 1 p.m. for those who would like to attend. The Celebration of Life funeral mass will begin at 2 p.m. The burial will follow at Rolling Oaks Memorial Center.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to Taylor’s Tree at http://www.facebook.com/remembertaylor, Special memories and condolences can also be shared with the family on this site.
Vail Daily - October 3, 2010
Family hears late daughter’s heart beat
Vail, CO Colorado
October 3, 2010
BEAVER CREEK – Viewers across America likely had tears in their eyes as they watched a story on “The Today Show” about 13-year-old Taylor Storch, who lost her life in a skiing accident at Beaver Creek in March. “The Today Show” featured a story about Taylor’s parents’ decision to donate their daughter’s organs once they learned she was brain-dead on March 15.
The decision was easy, Todd and Tara Storch said, because their daughter was such a giving person. “She was such a giving, loving person, and so this is just really what she would have wanted,” Tara Storch told “The Today Show” anchor Meredith Vieira on Friday. “She was so giving.” Taylor’s kidneys, eyes, liver, pancreas and heart were all donated, but it’s the story about her heart and its recipient that truly touched the Storches.
They met Patricia Winters, who received Taylor’s heart, about six months after Taylor passed away. Tara Storch had waited six months to finally have some kind of connection with her daughter
Patricia’s husband, Joe Winters, wanted to know who the donor was, and figured it out when he read news reports about Taylor’s death that said her heart would be donated to a 39-year-old Arizona woman.
Back in Texas, the Storches were also trying to figure out where their daughter’s heart had ended up.
When the families finally connected, Tara Storch got the connection she had been yearning for – she got to hear Taylor’s heart beat again. She listened to Winters’ chest with a stethoscope and was overcome with emotion. “She and I were extremely close,” Tara Storch told Vieira.
