Arthur "Bud" Tolle, lifelong Nardin area resident died Saturday, Jan. 3, 1998, at the Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home in Blackwell. He was 84.
The funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Nardin United Methodist Church. The Rev. Charles Hanna, pastor of the church and D.W. Boyd will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Olive Cemetery in Nardin under the direction of Hackler Funeral Home, Blackwell. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Wednesday from 8 to 9:30 a.m., then the casket will be closed.
Arthur "Bud" Tolle was born Nov. 10, 1913, on the family farm near Nardin to John and Meta (Reese) Tolle. He attended Nardin School and graduated from Blackwell High School in 1932.
He was married to Wilma Landis on Aug. 18, 1940, and the couple farmed near Blackwell and Nardin until 1989. Tolle served on the Nardin School Board and the Clyde Farmers Coop Board. He was a member of the Nardin United Methodist Church. Bud enjoyed playing golf.
Survivors include his wife, Wilma; three daughters and their husbands Kayleen and Fred Miller of Menlo Park, Calif., Jeanie and Harmon Smith of Wynne, Ark., and Jackie and D.W. Boyd of Blackwell; six grandchildren, Gina Chapman and Mark Simmons of California, J. Harmon and Marilin Smith of Arkansas, and Bex and Blain Boyd of Blackwell; two sisters Hazel Clark and Ica Tolle of Nardin; and one brother Earl Tolle of Nardin. He was preceded in death by his parents and five brothers, Lester, Charlie, Mert, Vernon and an infant.
Arthur (Bud) Tolle 
