It is with great sadness that we report the passing of friend Dave Toth
on February 26, 2010. Dave was President Emeritus of TAPR and also
served as its President (2005-2009) and as a member of its Board of
Directors (1987-1993 and 2004-2010). VE3GYQ will be best remembered for
his dry sense of humor and his efforts to make TAPR's participation in
the HPSDR project a resounding success.

Dave's Obituary reads:

Dr. David Bradley Toth, 55, died at 3:10 p.m. Feb. 26, 2010, at his residence.

He was born Aug. 11, 1954, in Windsor, Ontario, to Thomas S. and Magda
M. Kachler Toth. His mother survives in Windsor. On June 16, 2009, he
married Ronda S. Nartker, who survives in Spencerville.

Dr. Toth graduated from the University of Western Ontario Medical School
in 1978. He practiced family medicine in London, Ontario. He moved to
the U.S. in 1993 and began a career in emergency medicine. He was a
partner of Premier Health Care Services, in Dayton, and worked at Lima
Memorial Health System and St. Rita(tm)'s Medical Center until
the time of his illness. He was a member of the American College of
Emergency Physicians, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He
was board certified in Family Medicine of Canada. He was president of
the Regional Physician Advisory Board of EMS and was also the medical
director of Ada, Bath and Spencerville EMS.

He was a private pilot for 30 years. He loved to go to the Allen County
Airport and fly his Twin Comanche as much as possible. He was a member
of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, EAA and the Comanche
Flyers. Besides flying, he was an amateur astronomer. Since he was a
young boy in school, he enjoyed looking at the night sky and reading
about space and the stars. He had his own observatory that was seen
opened up on clear nights. He set up the London, Ontario, Astronomy Club
and served as its president. He was also a member of the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada and belonged to the Lima, Dayton and
Columbus Astronomy Clubs. He traveled for NASA to Chile and Australia to
fix telescope problems. He worked closely with Software Bisque to make
computer programs to operate telescopes. You could catch him planning
trips to Starfest and the Winter Star Party yearly.

He was also a HAM radio operator since the 1970s. He would talk for
hours with his call sign VE3GYQ. He set up the London, Ontario,
towers. He was the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio president from 2004 to
2009. In his spare time, he enjoyed a round or two of golf with partners
or for fundraisers. He also enjoyed hitting the slopes if possible to
ski.

Survivors also include two sons, Michael Toth, of Bowling Green, and
Christopher Toth, of London, Ontario; a daughter, Caitlin Toth, of
Montreal; a stepson, Rusty Nartker, of Spencerville; two brothers,
Brian (Susan) Toth, of London, Ontario, and Darryl (Helena) Toth, of
Lakeshore, Ontario; two sisters, Stephanie (Frank) Capizzi, of Shelby
Township, Mich., and Sondra (Dana) Woltz, of Windsor, Ontario; an
aunt, Apollonia "Loni" Noll of Windsor, Ontario; and numerous nephews
and nieces.

Services will begin at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Charles Catholic
Church. Father Stephen Blum will officiate. Burial of the cremated
remains will be at a later date.

Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Monday and 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the
Shawnee Chapel of Chiles-Laman Funeral Homes, where a parish wake
service will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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