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CHARLES HOBERT TOLL, banker, stricken with heart attack at his beach home at Balboa, died at St. Joseph’s hospital, Santa Ana, Calif., August 22, 1948; born at Clinton, Iowa, in 1858; studied civil engineering at Cornell college, Mount Vernon, Iowa, and upon graduation went to California in 1884 and became credit man for a wholesale grocery firm at Los Angeles; elected city councilman there in 1896 and served four years; became cashier of the Southern California Savings bank April 1, 1900, and in 1906 was made vice president when that institution merged with the Security Trust & Savings bank, continuing until December 1947 when he retired from active duties; was prominent in civic affairs throughout his lifetime and held membership in many organizations; married Eleanor Joy, deceased, the mother of four sons, Charles Hobart Toll Jr.; Gerald S. Toll, a vice-president of the Security-First National Bank; Atty. Maynard Toll of the Board of Education and Carroll C. Toll of Santa Barbara; a second wife, Marilla Pool died six years ago, and in December, 1945, he married Elsie Bassett, who, with the four sons, survive.