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Our First Homeplace – Margie (Tollas) Bernard“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” -Helen KellerWhenever I get a whiff of boxwood, daf […]

My father, Alfred Ewald Richard Tollas was born 26 March 1904 in St. Joseph, Berrien County, Michigan to William & Hulda (Schultz) Tollas.

William was twenty when his parents,  Albert and Albertina ‘T […]

 Bernard-Tollas Family Tree launched ~ U. S. Naval Station Chapel Washington, D.C.This was the neutral site for our American Melting Pot Lutheran~Jewish marriage. Although our marriage ended due to ‘unhappy […]