In a horribly tragic announcement made online on Tuesday, March 12, beloved longtime Fox News personality Kat Timpf, the co-host of Gret Gutfeld, who in recent years has faced a personal battle with cancer, revealed that her father had passed away unexpectedly on May 7 of this year at the relatively young age of 69. After her post announcing his passing went viral, she shared how people can help the family, and what she is doing to honor her father’s life.
As background, when announcing his passing on X in a post that has since received over 1.6 million views, Timpf said, “My seemingly healthy, strong father Daniel ‘Dad Timpf’ Timpf died very unexpectedly on the evening of May 7 at just 69 years old.”
She then praised his many good qualities, saying, “It does not seem like enough to simply call him my father, because he was so much more than that. He was my rock, my hero and my best friend. He was loyal, funny, kind, selfless, hard-working, and so devoted to his children that it was impossible to be near him and not find yourself inspired. He was a writer, a painter, a sailor, and somehow knowledgeable on every subject from world history to literature to accounting.”
Then, after describing how he was there to help her when she was stricken with cancer while giving birth, and how he helped her and her family get through that, she said, “I am currently living an unimaginable horror. For many people, this is a tragic story. For me, it’s my life. I do not know how I will recover from it. I only know that I have to for the sake of what is left of my family.”
Later on, she appended a comment to the post in which she shared how those who want to help her honor her father can do so, saying, “I do appreciate condolences, but better than that, I would like you to do something kind for someone you know. Maybe someone you haven’t reached out to for a while, who may have gone through something difficult a long time ago that everyone has now moved on from. I am no stranger to Trauma Road, after all, and I know that’s how it goes… people rushing to do anything for you at the beginning, and then slowly fading away, until you are ultimately left with your unbearable loss alone. I know it will happen to me, too: The world will move on from this, even as I do not. This is a universal experience for anyone who goes through tragedy, and it is up to us to change that.”
Continuing, she noted that since she can’t bring her dad back, she’s calling on everyone to try and treat each other better and spend what unknown amount of time we all have left well, saying, “If I could make one wish, I would bring my dad back. I know it’s not possible, because I have spent days trying. So instead, I would like to wish that we can all remember that every person we are talking to carries wounds and treat one another with humanity, regardless of our differences. My father always did that. He was a man of faith and strong values who did not have time to judge others, as he was far too busy living his life as the example of what a good man should be.”
On the same note, she added, “While I have everyone’s ear, I am begging for us all to do our best to follow my father’s example. I need to see more kindness. Not just for me, as, although I am suffering immensely, I know I am not the only one suffering. Suffering is happening all over the world, every single one of us is dealing with something, and yet we act otherwise. Remember that the person you speak to is a human just like you are; that most of us want the same things such as happiness, love, and the best for our families and friends, and that most of our disagreements come from simply a difference of opinion in how to get there.”
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Concluding, that post, she said, before announcing that she has also had to put her rescue cat Cheens down, “Go be nice to someone. Go have the conversations I wish I could have with my father. Go do something good, go say something kind — because I can absolutely promise you, there is no limit to how cruel the world can be on its own. I’ll see everyone soon. Kat P.S. Less than a week before my dad died, I had to put Cheens down.”
And, in a third post, a comment on the comment, Timpf noted how people can help her family honor her father in lieu of flowers, asking for donations to a race helping the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She said, “In lieu of flowers: My sister is running the marathon for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where I was treated last year — a cause selected before we ever had even a hint of a thought that our family would lose our seemingly healthy dad to something completely different less than 14 months later.”
Watch Timpf return to FNC after her battle with cancer to give a tribute to Charlie Kirk here:
Featured image credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons