Here’s the link to Jeff Taylor’s obituary on the Musgrove website. You can share a memory of Jeff there.

The Eugene-Springfield bridge community, District 20 and the bridge world at large have lost one of the true giants of the game with Jeff Taylor’s passing. Jeff died in his sleep on December 21st.

Right now, we are all in shock. Of course, we must all go forward but it is hard to imagine bridge in our area without Jeff.

We send our thoughts to Linda, whom we know to be struggling right now per her own health, and to his children Russ and Kathleen.

We will have more to say about Jeff at a later date. Right now the plans are for a Celebration of Life sometime in the Spring or Summer.

Here’s a little bit of Jeff’s history that we put together a while back.

Club members gathered with Leigh’s family after Saturday’s game to honor his life and reminisce about this sweet man we all loved.

Joining us at the club were Leigh’s daughter Kristen, her husband Mike, Leigh’s son Leigh Jr., cousin Ann, granddaughter Leah, and her husband Johnny.

The stories came thick and fast with much laughter and some tears too as we learned about his many interests as well as some of his quirks.

Thanks to the family for graciously allowing us to post video of the event as well as copies of some of the old photos they brought in.

We’ll all miss Leigh very much.