Frederick Stephen Tolle
Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 10 September
1947, page 1
Seven Kentuckians, including men from Dayton, Covington, Newport and Ft Mitchell, either were killed, injured or are mission as a result of the million dollar explosion which destroyed the Island Queen, Tuesday at Pittsburg Pa. Among the missing are Fred Tolle, Dayton; William Stapleton, Newport. All of the casualties were reported to be members of the crew or other engaged in entertaining aboard the boat.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 3 October 1947, page 6
Fred Tolle, 46, funeral will be conducted from the Betz Funeral Home, Newport at 2 pm Friday. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Tolle lived at 1 Burma Road, Dayton and was a member of the Simon Kenton Post, VFW and a WWI veteran. He leaves a widow, Bertha; four sons, Robert, Eugene, Winnolin and Donald; a daughter Marilyn Rae Tolle, all of Dayton.