Tuscaloosa Mayor Shares Schedule for City Service to Remember & Celebrate Kip Tyner

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox took time on Tuesday to mourn the loss of longtime city councilman Kip Tyner, who died last Friday after a summer of health issues, and to share the details of the city's service to remember him.

Before the Tuesday meeting of the city council began, Maddox asked City Hall to take a rare moment of silence to mourn their first meeting in around 10,000 days without Tyner on the council.

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Memorials for Tyner are throughout the building, including one in front of his seat in the Council chambers, and another in the conference room where the city holds its committee meetings each Tuesday before their larger meeting.

Maddox said the city and others who loved Tyner will gather at the Fountain at Alberta Park at 2710 University Boulevard East in Tuscaloosa at 6 p.m. next Monday, September 28th.

He said the gathering to celebrate Kip's life and service will only take about 40 minutes, but will be held in the heart of the district he revitalized after the April 2011 tornado leveled much of it.

Tyner's family will lay him to rest in a public service Friday at Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel at 5434 Old Birmingham Highway, with public visitation from 12 p.m. 2 p.m., a chapel service at 2 p.m. and a graveside service.

As they mourn his death, the city is also taking steps to fill the vacancy it created and set a tentative schedule for a special election to choose the next councilman for District 5, who could be in office before the end of the year.

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Editor's note: a previous version of this story erroneously reported that the family's service for Tyner would be private. The service is public and the details have been shared above.