Stephen A. Toth served as police chief of Pepper Pike for 13 years after working for 26 years on the Shaker Heights force. He retired to a life of golf and painting.
The longtime Aurora resident died of heart disease at the Woodlands Nursing home in Ravenna. Steve, suffered a series of strokes this summer and fall.
He joined the Navy early in World War II. He served on two destroyer escorts and remained close to his shipmates after the war.
Over the years he would travel to the reunions of his main ship, the U.S.S. George. He often carried with him a wooden scale model of the ship that he made based on blueprints he ordered from the Navy.
In 1948, he joined the Shaker Heights Police Department. He married his wife Ruth a few years later.
During his 26 years with Shaker Heights, he studied police work at Case Western Reserve and Northwestern universities and the FBI academy as he rose to the rank of lieutenant and special investigator. He helped design the city's police station after the old one was damaged in a bombing.
Pepper Pike hired him as its police chief in 1975. He held that position until he retired in 1988.
His wife Ruth died that same year. After he retired, he played golf and continued painting watercolors of landscapes and seascapes.
He is survived by a stepson, Timothy, sister, Margaret and a brother Richard. Also two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The longtime Aurora resident died of heart disease at the Woodlands Nursing home in Ravenna. Steve, suffered a series of strokes this summer and fall.
He joined the Navy early in World War II. He served on two destroyer escorts and remained close to his shipmates after the war.
Over the years he would travel to the reunions of his main ship, the U.S.S. George. He often carried with him a wooden scale model of the ship that he made based on blueprints he ordered from the Navy.
In 1948, he joined the Shaker Heights Police Department. He married his wife Ruth a few years later.
During his 26 years with Shaker Heights, he studied police work at Case Western Reserve and Northwestern universities and the FBI academy as he rose to the rank of lieutenant and special investigator. He helped design the city's police station after the old one was damaged in a bombing.
Pepper Pike hired him as its police chief in 1975. He held that position until he retired in 1988.
His wife Ruth died that same year. After he retired, he played golf and continued painting watercolors of landscapes and seascapes.
He is survived by a stepson, Timothy, sister, Margaret and a brother Richard. Also two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Stephen A. Toth served as police chief of Pepper Pike for 13 years after working for 26 years on the Shaker Heights force. He retired to a life of golf and painting.
The longtime Aurora resident died of heart disease at the Woodlands Nursing home in Ravenna. Steve, suffered a series of strokes this summer and fall.
He joined the Navy early in World War II. He served on two destroyer escorts and remained close to his shipmates after the war.
Over the years he would travel to the reunions of his main ship, the U.S.S. George. He often carried with him a wooden scale model of the ship that he made based on blueprints he ordered from the Navy.
In 1948, he joined the Shaker Heights Police Department. He married his wife Ruth a few years later.
During his 26 years with Shaker Heights, he studied police work at Case Western Reserve and Northwestern universities and the FBI academy as he rose to the rank of lieutenant and special investigator. He helped design the city's police station after the old one was damaged in a bombing.
Pepper Pike hired him as its police chief in 1975. He held that position until he retired in 1988.
His wife Ruth died that same year. After he retired, he played golf and continued painting watercolors of landscapes and seascapes.
He is survived by a stepson, Timothy, sister, Margaret and a brother Richard. Also two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The longtime Aurora resident died of heart disease at the Woodlands Nursing home in Ravenna. Steve, suffered a series of strokes this summer and fall.
He joined the Navy early in World War II. He served on two destroyer escorts and remained close to his shipmates after the war.
Over the years he would travel to the reunions of his main ship, the U.S.S. George. He often carried with him a wooden scale model of the ship that he made based on blueprints he ordered from the Navy.
In 1948, he joined the Shaker Heights Police Department. He married his wife Ruth a few years later.
During his 26 years with Shaker Heights, he studied police work at Case Western Reserve and Northwestern universities and the FBI academy as he rose to the rank of lieutenant and special investigator. He helped design the city's police station after the old one was damaged in a bombing.
Pepper Pike hired him as its police chief in 1975. He held that position until he retired in 1988.
His wife Ruth died that same year. After he retired, he played golf and continued painting watercolors of landscapes and seascapes.
He is survived by a stepson, Timothy, sister, Margaret and a brother Richard. Also two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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