Hendersonville, NC
William "Bill" E. Toth
1927 — 2022
William "Bill" E. Toth, 94, passed away comfortably on February 18, 2022 at Elderberry Health Care in Marshall, NC. He was born prematurely to the late William and Jean Davidson Toth in Queens, NY. He began his little life wrapped in cotton batting and fed through an eyedropper while in a shoebox placed in an open warming-oven. With his extraordinary fortitude, he thrived. Oh, did he thrive! As a teen he loved working in a bicycle shop fixing bikes. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School then attended Manhattan College, graduating in 1950 with an engineering degree. His first jobs were at Sikorsky in Stratford, CT and Link Aviation in Binghamton, NY. In 1956 he accepted a position at MIT...