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Tim Eggert

Boulder, CO, USA

December 1, 1971 - June 21, 2018

Dec 1, 1971 - Jun 21, 2018

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John Eggert

2018, Boulder, CO, USA

I am not ready to write the post I will want to write when all of this has sunk in, but I want all of Tim's friends to know how deeply meaningful your posts have been to me and my family.

When I stood in the circle and as I read these posts, I see Tim as I too knew him. I recognize the boy I raised in those comments and posts and I see and feel that he lives on, and will continue to live on. That is very gratifying and comforting.

I will no longer be able to have conversations on the phone with Tim, the content and style of which I recognize in your comments, but going back to these memorial tributes will be the next best thing.

I have always said that Tim was born with the best of my and his mom's genes, and somehow seemed to have switched off the worst. His sister, Karla played and worked with Tim since his birth and developed a unified spirit--a way of thinking an being--that only they could have created. Her two acquired sibling and his step-mom added to the mix as he got older. But it is clear that who Tim became in the second half of his life was a product of his friends as least as much as his family. He would not have become the man of whom I am so proud without his good fortune of landing in Boulder after college and collecting the mega-gaggle of friends such as you all.

Just as I see Tim in you all, I see you all in Tim, and I thank you sincerely for everything you did to further enable this man to become who he was/is.

With awe and love,
John, Tim's dad of 47 years

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Mary Miller

Adam Jackaway

Dearest Tim — You were my favorite musical partner of all time. I treasured the sweet and complex rhythms we conjured, and listen to them still. And this week they brought tears to my eyes every time — and joy to my soul. I will miss you dearly. The world has lost one of its true creative gems. Rest in peace my kind, thoughtful brother. Rest In Peace.
~ Adam

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Molly McIntyre

2017, Crested Butte, CO, USA

Crested Butte winter sunset

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Molly McIntyre

It’s hard to imagine life without Tim.
I have so many memories, he was the first person I met when TJ and I moved to Boulder together. TJ and Tim became friends in 1994 when TJ was in Boulder for a couple years, they reunited when we moved back in 1999 and it’s been history ever since. It was never a dull moment when Tim was around...the go pro video he made from the entrance of a fox den of the baby foxes outside our CB place and made a you tube video to music (does anyone still have that video?), the 24 hour time lapse videos he made from our deck, looking at the stargazer app and stargazing, listening to him play guitar, the jokes and tricks he did constantly with the kids, the time he showed up at our house with a fancy Easter cake in a bucket because he was on his bike, there are so many memories, the list goes on and on.... my kids loved Uncle Tim and he made them feel special. Nobody made TJ laugh so hard. TJ was always happier after spending time with Tim, it felt like a blessing for him every time. His absence will definitely leave a hole at our house and I know he would know that. We loved him big as he did us. Forever grateful that we had Tim in our lives for the time that we did.
With love, Molly

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Molly McIntyre

2013, Boulder, CO, USA

Mustache clan: Tim, TJ and Rowan

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Forrest Nottingham

2018, Florida, USA

Tim and I reviewing one of the many slow motion videos he loved taking

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Ben Eggert

1980, Milwaukee, WI, USA

At our Aunt and Uncle's wedding. I must have been six, so Tim was eight. I was sitting watching everybody dance.
Tim danced over and asked me, "why aren't you dancing?" I don't know how, I answered. He said, "oh, it's easy, you just hop around."
What a great example he was, even as a kid: just get out there and hop around.

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Sarah Chesnutt

Depth, intelligence, guts, artistry, humor, and panache -- Tim was unmatched in his many brilliant facets, and I don't think I will ever meet another human quite like him. I grieve that we will not see what he was to become, and my deepest condolences to his close friends and family. Thank you, Tim, for the many moments I would think of you and something you pointed out, both before you left and now.

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Ellen Jo Roberts

2006, Boulder, CO, USA

Handsome Tim, how I'll always remember him, surrounded by music

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Ellen Jo Roberts

1994, Boulder, CO, USA

Visiting Tim in Boulder soon after he moved west

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Ellen Jo Roberts

1994, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA

NIU Outdoor Center for Recreation winter camping group at Yellowstone, January 1994

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Ellen Jo Roberts

2006, Boulder, CO, USA

Tim got such a kick out of our dogs

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Ellen Jo Roberts

2006, Boulder, CO, USA

Mercedes dude.

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Ellen Jo Roberts

1993, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

Tim and his trusty road bike. I think he used to deliver pizzas on this thing!

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Ellen Jo Roberts

1994, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA

Ellen, Chad, Tim, winter camping on NIU school trip

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Ellen Jo Roberts

1994, Boulder, CO, USA

June 1994, at Tim's first house in Boulder

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Ellen Jo Roberts

2006, Boulder, CO, USA

Tim and me

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Ellen Jo Roberts

2006, Boulder, CO, USA

Chad and Tim

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Ellen Jo Roberts

Tim Eggert was one of my most favorite people I ever met. He was the best kind of friend, not because he was always quick to write back (seldom) or always remembered my birthday (never) but because even if many years had passed between seeing each other, we could always take up exactly where we’d left off, being silly and riffing on any topic at all.

Tim was brilliant and weird, beautiful and talented. I met him 25 years ago at Northern Illinois University when we had a Spanish class together. We both lived in old boarding houses on College Avenue in Dekalb and one day after class he came hustling up behind me, “Hey ‘Elena’, wait up!”
"Timoteo" and I were fast friends, perhaps because we were fire sign siblings from another mother. Tim had an easy wit, a thirst for adventure, a great sense of humor, a keen awareness of life's absurdities, enchanting musical skills and terrible handwriting. He was always a great joy to hang out with.

In January 1994 Chad and I shared a tent with Tim winter-camping in the Badlands of South Dakota and Wyoming's Yellowstone on a school trip. After college we all moved out west—Tim to Colorado and Chad and I to Arizona. We kept in touch via cards and letters and later email. We visited Tim and stayed with him at two different Boulder addresses and he stayed with us in Arizona en route back from a motorcycle trip to Mexico. He was a very private person and didn’t dig social media so it was hard to keep up with his life from afar. He’d made a cameo in a dream last week and at random I Googled him. I was stunned and saddened when his obituary came up.

Even though we’d not seen him in a dozen years, the world feels like a different place now knowing he’s not here. My deepest sympathies to his family and friends and all those that loved him. Please know the positive ways he impacted so many, and the joy and beautiful intensity he carried with him. Peace, old friend. You will be missed.

“Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face
Do you realize we're floating in space,
Do you realize that happiness makes you cry
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.”
-The Flaming Lips

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Mom (Georgene) Eggert

2011, Floral City, Florida, USA

Me and my boy!

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Mom (Georgene) Eggert

1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Always a little different - LOVED his big boy bowties!

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Mom (Georgene) Eggert

1974

Big Sister - "I love you Karla"

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Ben Eggert

1979, Syracuse, NY, USA

I was 4. Tim was 6. Karla was 8. We decided it would be a good idea for me to try a two wheeler for the first time... with no parental supervision.
I had an awesome time. My first taste of speed... until I wiped out. I still have the scar on my chin.
I can't believe he's gone.

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Jennifer Hochgesang

I’m sad to say I haven’t seen Tim for a long time but he was a close friend when I was younger. I can capture him so easily in my eye — that beard and smile, his genial personality and such an affection for his friends. This memorial is beautiful and so well written. It captures him well. I am sad and am thinking of him and those that are grieving right now. Mixed with the sadness — I can see him so clearly — because he left such a warm and loving presence that is hard also not to smile thinking of the wonder of him.

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Desiree Sanchez

Just to say that I am so terribly sad to hear of Tim's passing. Our time together was in the pre-digital late nineties. I have so many memories and pictures, will try to find a way to scan and share some.
warmest wishes and deep condolences to all who were close to Tim. What a loss!

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