Dolores Ruth Hansen Toye
Dolores Ruth Hansen Toye

Dolores Ruth Hansen Toye passed away peacefully on April 15, 2024. She was born in Akron, Ohio, to Susan and Joseph Koza.

Dolores worked as a secretary for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron. Upon retirement, she moved to Santa Barbara, where she met and married private yacht skipper Alfred Malcolm Toye.

They spent many happy years sailing the seas together. Malcolm passed away Dec. 9, 2014; and her son, Mark Gregory Hansen, died three weeks later in a helicopter crash, Dec. 31, 2014.

Black and white photo of Dolores Ruth Hansen Toye and her son Mark Gregory Hansen who died in 2014. In the picture, Mark is a young boy and they are standing on a dock with the water behind them.
Black and white photo of Dolores Ruth Hansen Toye and her son Mark Gregory Hansen who died in 2014.

Dolores leaves behind many great-grandnieces in Akron, which is where she will be laid to rest.

She also leaves behind her daughter-in-law Augie Grace Hansen in Glendale, Arizona; and her lifelong friends since childhood Joanne Miller in Hamden, Connecticut, and Helen Smythe in Los Alamitos, California.

In Santa Barbara she is survived by her loving cousins Bill and Solveig Bertka, Paula Oviattt and Rosemary Bertka.

She loved and appreciated Peter and Cathy Weaver, Alec Chambers, and Ralph and Diane Waterhouse. She was forever grateful for their care and attention, especially in her later years.

There will be a Celebration of Life for Dolores at a later date.