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TAYLOR -- Sol Taylor. May 12,1912-March 11, 2011. PUMPS "WAS" HIS BUSINESS. Sol Taylor, who started T-P Pump & Pipe Company in 1940, passed away on Friday morning, March 11, 2011 at age 98 after a great life. Sol was a man of great integrity and humility. He started with a single truck and a load of pipe on far South Fourth and Cesar Chavez (then Bridge Ave.), and he built the business to its current third generation level with good and honest service and by being a man of his word. Sol came from humble beginnings. He lost his mother at the age of three and his early years were difficult. He graduated from a vocational high school in Kansas City. He survived the great depression, worked in the CCC in California and he and his wife, Mildred, were in the grocery business in Kansas City. At the suggestion of Sol's cousin, he and Mildred headed for Albuquerque in 1940. Sol and his wife were among the earliest members of B'nai Israel Congregation and very active in the Jewish community. Sol started in the scrap business that developed into T-P Pump & Pipe Company on North Second. Sol mastered a business that involved complex math, electronics and hydrology. Mitchell Taylor, Sol's youngest son, and Mitchell's son, Jeremy, now operate T-P Pump that has been in operation for over seventy years. Sol greatly enjoyed working and talking with all the loyal employees and wonderful customers of T-P Pump, as talking pumps with anyone and having a good laugh were his passions. Sol developed a tremendous command of the English language. When Sol started T-P Pump, his motto was "Pumps Is Our Business", and he debated the correctness of the motto with many a person who stopped in to advise Sol that it should have read "Pumps "are" our business." Sol loved his family, his business, and his airplane. Sol loved golf and the time he spent with his golfing buddies. He loved golf for its challenge, its camaraderie and for the beauty and tranquility of the Four Hills Country Club Golf Course. He played the game until five months before he passed away. After the loss of his wife, Mildred, in 1998, Sol moved into Montebello Retirement Home on Academy. Sol's family extends their heartfelt hugs and thanks to Mary Earl Williams of Montebello for being such a beautiful and wonderful friend to Sol. The family also extends thanks to Rae and Arnold Frishman for their loving care, and to the entire staff at Montebello and to Presbyterian Hospice. One of Sol's last remarks was that he had no regrets about is life. He said his life was just good luck. But Sol made the "good luck" happen by hard work, being a good and honorable businessman, and a good father and family man. Sol leaves a beautiful family, son Allan, his wife Susan, and grandsons David and Michael, son Ron Taylor, his wife Karen, granddaughters Leah and Dorian and grandson Ben, and son Mitchell, his wife Sandi and grandsons Jeremy (Jennifer) and Chad (Elizabeth), and three great-grandchildren. After an 11:30 a.m. graveside service on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at the B'Nai Israel section of Fairview, there will be a luncheon and celebration of Sol's life at 1:30 p.m. at Four Hills County Club for family and friends. The family requests that anyone wishing to make a contribution, in Sol's honor, do so to the Jewish Federation of Albuquerque or Jewish Family Service. Sol's sense of humor and quick wit was a joy to all who knew him. He was a kind, charitable decent man who was loved by all who had the good fortune to know him.
        Published on: Sun March 13, 2011