That's tragic and extremely sad

"At age 11, life became more complicated when Tyler's father, a retired Air Force captain pilot during World War II and Montgomery County sheriff for a term in the 1950s, died in car accident, and his mother, a homemaker, passed away of breast cancer.
"I was b68very fortunate to have a lot of close family, sisters and brothers," he said. "My sister took me in and raised me like a son. She was married. She was 10 years older."
Tyler moved to South Carolina to live with his sister when starting junior high"
Source: The Clarion-Ledger (2014?)
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Well, since they BOTH died when he was 11 (assuming it was at the same time, b/c it would be rare for an 11 yr old to lose BOTH parents to disease at such a young age), I would say a car accident is the likely culprit (or some other type of accident).