{"id":113317,"date":"2025-10-23T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/10\/23\/jack-tolan\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:04:45","modified_gmt":"2028-04-10T05:04:45","slug":"jack-tolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/10\/23\/jack-tolan\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Jack Tolan"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Jack Tolan, aged 90, of Great Falls, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025.<br \/>\n\t  Jack was born on Dec. 23, 1934, at the homestead of his parents, Nels and Margaret (Bensch) Tolan, near Poplar, Mont.<br \/>\n\t  At 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Oriskany CV-34. He served as aide-de-camp for the admiral of the 7th Fleet on two deployments to the Far East. Ports of call included  Hawaii, Japan, China and the Philippines. He returned home after his discharge in 1957.<br \/>\n\t  He married his wife of 58 years, Virginia (Kuehne) on March 10, 1957, and moved to Great Falls, Montana. He worked for Falls Tire for a short time before forming Tolan Distributing Inc., with Virginia, as jobber for Chevron  USA Inc. He continued to work even up until his death. Jack truly enjoyed his many customers when they came and visited.<br \/>\n\t  Jack spent many years gardening  while Virginia grew flowers. Together, they were foster parents for seven children.  He was very proud of his three children. He rarely missed any music concerts, football games or wrestling matches. He was especially  proud to attend all three kids\u2019 college graduations and proud that all three served in the U.S. military.<br \/>\n\t  He was a Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader seeing his two sons on to becoming Life Scout and Eagle Scout. He is a lifetime member of the Marine  Corps League. He was also a longtime member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.<br \/>\n\t  He and Virginia enjoyed dancing, meeting with friends and attending family  events throughout the years. They enjoyed traveling together to San Francisco, Acapulco, Seattle, Honolulu and Bermuda, as well as trips across Montana and Alberta.<br \/>\n\t  Jack was preceded in death by his wife, Virginia; grandson,  Daniel Wimberly; brother,  Victor Tolan; and sister, Ann (Russ) Christopherson.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by his children,  Desiree Tolan, Derrick Tolan and Darron (Mary-Beth) Tolan, all of Great Falls, Mont.; grandchildren, Matthew  Wimberly of Salem, Ill., Stephen Swindle of Great Falls, Isaac Tolan and Emma Tolan, both of Great Falls; Gab Tolan and Garrett Tolan of Brush, Colo.; great-grandchildren,  Joslyn Wimberly of Spokane, Wash., and McKenna  Wimberly of Great Falls, Mont.<br \/>\n\t  There will be a celebration  of life for both Jack and Virginia on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, at 2 p.m., at Schnider Funeral Home, 1510 13th St. So., Great Falls, Mont. We invite  everyone to join us in saluting  Jack with military honors  and sharing memories of Jack and Virginia\u2019s lives.<br \/>\n\t  In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Marine Corps League, Children\u2019s Receiving  Home or Boy Scouts of America.<br \/>\n\t  Condolences may be left online at www.SchniderFuneralHome. com.<br \/>\n\t(Paid Obituary) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113419,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113317\/revisions\/113419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113317"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=113317"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=113317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}