Dolores Ruth Hansen Toye

Dolores passed away peacefully on April 15, 2024.

She was born in Akron, Ohio to Susan and Joseph Koza. She worked as a secretary for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron. Upon retirement, she moved to Santa Barbara, California where she met and married private yacht skipper Alfred Malcolm Toye. They spent many happy years sailing the seas together. Malcom passed away December 9, 2014 and her son, Mark Gregory Hansen, died 3 weeks later in a helicopter crash, December 31, 2014.

She 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, AZ and her lifelong friends since childhood, Joanne Miller in Hamden, CT. and Helen Smythe in Los Alamitos, CA.

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