Tanner Ryan Gove - Online Memorial Website

T was one of the good ones, I remmember this one time we went to one of Brenden's parties, and Tanner brought this big ass bottle of absynth, and he drank the whole damn bottle his self! That night he streaked down 8th street and passed out in front of a church... he spent that night in the tank lol, god we had some good times... Miss ya Buddy

I married Tanner's Aunt when he was just over a year old. Lois and I loved him like he was our own child. He was a loud trouble making boy who, like all young boys, always found some way to get into mischief, even when there was nothing we adults could find for him to get into. For the most part he was a quiet kid, and he was devastated when his parents moved him to Saskatoon... He adapted fairly quickly and settled into city life rather well... In 2000, when his father passed and Sonia got sick, Tanner and his mother moved back to Swift Current to be closer to Lois and I. We helped any way we could, but as soon as Tanner was 18, he told Sonia, either she moved back to Saskatoon with him, or he was moving without her. He had a child of his own by then and was doing his best to look after her. Sonia made the decision to stay while her only son moved back to the big city. He was a good boy though, he called constantly to check on his mother, and he visited her at least once a week. Then Sonia's cancer came back and both Sonia and Tanner passed in March of this year. The Goves have reunited in heaven, but it is a great loss that someone as young as Tanner had to leave us so soon... RIP Son

I've known Tanner for 7 years, we had something really special, we had a child...I remember the day our daughter was born... Tanner was so proud, he rushed to the University and he held her, and he smiled, and I knew then that she was his world, he's do anything for her. I know I've made some mistakes and he and I didn't work out, but Ocean was his world, and I regret every day that I kept her from him, and the things I have done... I hope that somewhere up there he can forgive me... He always was a good hearted, sweet wonderful man. And I will love him for the rest of my life God T I am so sorry...Ocean needs to know what kind of person T was, and I will NOT let her go through life not knowing about her dad.

I've known Tanner longer than I can really remember. We met when he moved in down the street from me when we were 6. He had just moved from Swift Current and didn't have any friends. We were friends from that first day, and he has been more like a brother than a friend to me ever since. I remember our first day of grade 3 when Tanner and I got our first crushes on the same girl... Her name was Allison something. We fought like dogs over that girl, each trying to outdo the other to win Allison's attention. In the end, she rejected us both so it ended okay, though we were heartbroken and nearly lost our friendship then... I could go on for days with all the stories I have of our childhood, and our whacked out friendship, but some things are better kept to ourselves... Tanner and I were friends, but more than that, we were brothers. Inseparable. Even now, when I look at my son and he does something crazy, I can't help but think, I gotta show T, or I gotta call T and get him to bring Ocean by... Then it hits me and I'm really alone again... I miss you man, you were my best friend.

I remember the first day I met T... I know it sounds corny but I loved him then. The way he smiled, the way he laughed... everything about him was so confident and I was sure that he would never want someone like me. But, through some miracle, he and I fell in love, and we had been together on and off for 8 years... In that time, we had ups, downs, ins, outs, and everything in between. And he taught me about the kind of woman I was capable of being, the kind of woman that he could love, that could love herself... Tanner was my entire being, I loved him more than anything, he was my love, my friend and my life. I'll never forget him and i miss him more with each passing day.