Obit: Tollin, B. Carol (1920 - 2008)

Contact: R. Lipprandt
Email: bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Best, Dix, Geiger, Hall, Kops, Kuikman, Kuelz, Myers, Peacock, Schoenfuss, Strey, Tollin, Weiler

----Source: The Tribune Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) Volume 48, No. 29, July 16, 2008, Page 17

Tollin, B. Carol (28 Feb. 1920 - 7 July 2008)

B. Carol Tollin, 88, Medford, passed away Monday, July 7, 2008 at the Memorial Nursing Home and Rehabilitation in Medford under the care of Hope Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc.

Carol was born February 28, 1920 to Jesse and Rose (Peacock) Hall in Belvidere, IL. She attended grade school in Poplar Grove, IL, and later graduated from Belvidere High School.

Following high school, Carol worked for the Greenlee Corp. in Illinois. She married Carl Tollin on Sept. 2, 1945 in Calendonia, Ill.

Carol and Carl moved to Abbotsford in 1967 and later they began farming in the town of Mayville from 1971 until they both retired from farming in 1976. Her husband Carl passed away July 26, 1990.

Carol was a member of the Homemakers Club in the town of Mayville and a past member of VASA and Brahe Lodge’s in Ill. In her spare time she loved to embroider and crochet.

She is lovingly survived by her two sons, David (Charlotte) Tollin, Roscoe, Ill., and Bruce Tollin, Medford. Carol is further survived by her grandchildren, Jennifer (Rick) Kuikman, Chicago, Ill., Patricia (Richard) Myers, Rockford, Ill., Melissa (Thomas Schoenfuss) Tollin, Colby and Kristy (Adam Strey) Tollin, Loyal; and her great grandchildren, Kaila and Cody Kuelz, Matthew, Wendy Kimberly and Andrew Kuikman, Evan Myers, Maeghan, Carol and Brandon Weiler, Kirsten Schoenfuss, Tyler Geiger, Alex Best, Hayden Kops, and Ava and Emma Strey. Also survived by many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be Friday, July 11, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. at the Maurina-Schilling Funeral Home in Abbotsford, Wis. The Rev. Kenneth A. Dix will preside. Burial will follow in Christ Lutheran Cemetery in the town of Holton in Marathon County. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until time of services on Friday at the funeral home in Abbotsford, Wis.

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