TOMMY YOU WILL BE MISSED AND ALWAYS BE KNOWN TOMMY T TO US.WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES AT THE CREW BUILDING .YOU JOKED ALOT AND MADED THE TIME PASS BY.YOU ALWAYS HAD A SMILE ON THAT FACE .I KNOW YOU ARE UP THERE LOOKING DOWN ON ON US SMILING AND THINKING WHAT YOU CAN DO NEXT TO MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH .TO THE FAMILY YOU ARE IN OUR PRAYERS IF THERE IS ANYTHING WE CAN DO PLEASE LET US KNOW .
DIANE AND BURT DEVERS

Our loving thoughts and prayers are with the entire Tygrest (extended) family. We are with you all in spirit and love.
Richard and Tracy Tygrest

To Debbie and the Tygrest family:

We would like to express our condolences to all of you at this time. Tommy was a character and we will surely miss him. Debbie and I go back a loooong way and I know she will miss her "little" brother. We send you love and peace at this sad time and will keep you in our thoughts and prayers.

To Tommy's family I wish to say my heart goes out to you in your time of loss. He was a dear friend to me, always with a smile and joke he could make anyone laugh. He was always a pleasure to be around. I know God only takes the best, and one of the best he was. He will be truly missed.

Barb, Richard and Debbie,
I am so very sorry, but I know all of you have very fond memories of Tommy that can comfort you. I can't be with you today, but just know you are in my thought and prayers.

I wanted to express to Tommy's family, my condolences. I knew Tommy through the Emergency Crew, in which i was a part of also. He was always fun to laugh with, being the kidder he was. He was also known as a good friend, he will be missed. As a moose member, I also miss him as a brother of the lodge. My prayers will be with you and your family in this time of sorrow. I also feel good for him as he starts his new eternal life with Jesus, in which one day we will all be together again one day. Take Care.

To Tommy's Family,Friends & Fiancee (Susan)
words can not describe what you all are going thru
at this point and time.
In this time of sorrow,may loving memeries light
your path to peace through the love and consending
prayers of peace and comfort to help you through this difficult time with deepest Sympathy.
Susan keep your chin up We all knew Tommy Loved
you very much and now he is your angel up in heaven looking over you. My prayers are with all
of you...

Tommy,

Though God kept you from becoming our son, in our hearts you will always be our beloved son.

Poppy & E.G.

Tommmy,

There are not enough words to say what you meant to me. We both know what we had. The love we had for each other was so very special. There will never be anybody in my life that I loved and will always love as much as I love you. God has you now and is taking care of you. I know in my heart you are in a better place. I miss you so much. We will be together again in a better place. Just always remember how much I love you.
You will always be in my heart forever.

I love you!!!

Susan

My husband and I would like to express our condolences.
We met Tommy while we were on the emergency crew and we are both proud to call him a friend
It is not often someone touches so many peoples lives.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

What a privilege it has been the last 14 years knowing Tommy Tygrest!! I had the wonderful opportunity working with him during the 5 years that I was on the Hopewell Emergenct Crew. While I was preparing for my State Board test, he knew how nervous I was and would finish working a 24 hour shift at the Fire Dept., come to the Crew Building and spend another 3 or 4 hours helping me get ready for the test.
Tommy is exclusively responsible for what became my nickname while on the Crew. One afternoon, I had just pulled 36 hours of Crew Duty and it had been an extremely busy day and a half. Tommy came down to the Crew Building and there were probably 6 or 7 people just hanging out in the front room just telling stories and jokes. Well we all know what a comedian Tommy was...he was telling this joke, and as he came to the "punch line", the entire room roared with laughter, except from me...I was so "out of it" from being up for so long, that I just looked at Tommy with that 'deer in the headlight' stare and quietly said..."I don't get it." At that very moment, that well-known broad smile stretched across his face as he said, "You know...Kelly is the perfect name for you to have....because right now, you remind me of Kelly Bundy (from "Married With Children"), and that's going to be your Crew nickname." Oh how right he was!! It stuck like glue...to the point of during a crew call that I was on with the Captain (at the time) Ernie Gray, Ernie yells to me, "Bundy! Get me a back board!" It was embroirdered on my jumpsuit, my crew hat....I was, for 5 years, known only as 'Bundy'. Thanks Tommy! Thank you for your fabulous sense of humor, your honesty, and your genuine friendship....you will be truly missed, dear friend.

I met Tommy through "the girl I'm going to marry", as he called her. Tommy was a gregarious person, one who would tease and play...never without a come-back better than mine. His involvement in the squad, among many other organizations, showed his love and compassion for people and his desire to help others in any way that he could. I sincerely hope that it brings comfort to close friends and family to know that Tommy is in the arms of God now and that he had, indeed, found the love of his life before passing through the doorway to eternal peace. My prayers to all who adored him.

Tommy and I grew up together, working for Carl's Hess Station and then both for the City of Hopewell. Tommy on the Fire Dept and me with the Police Dept.If we weren't pulling pranks on each other, we were teaming up and pulling them on someone else. Tommy is the man who gave my wife Kelly her nickname, but I'll let her tell that story- lol. My thoughts and prayers are with the family and my heart knows Tommy and I will get to rat race cars and joke together again one day when I join him. Gonna miss you brother, love ya, Dave

To the Tygrest family, My prayers and thoughts are with u . There are no words to descibe what you are going through, but i pray that god leads you in a beutiful way. Tommy was a very good person and very careing. He will be greatly missed. God bless

At times like this it's sometimes hard to find the words to say. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
We wish you comfort in your time of sorrow.
John & Sandra Hedrick

To Tommy's loved ones. I've had the pleasure of knowing Tommy the last 18 years. I was on the Hopewell Emergency Crew with him. Tommy was a fun person to be around. He was quite a character, pulling harmless pranks or just making people laugh by being silly. He was a caring and decent human being and I am proud to have called him my friend. My, husband, Jim Hardy, also knew Tommy from the crew. We would like to express our condolences and let you know that we will be praying for you.