Charles Henry "Joe" Tolman passed away Feb. 9, 2025 at age 87 in Bloomington, MN. Born in St Cloud, MN Sept. 7, 1937 to Thomas and Judith (Schmidt) Tolman.
He is pre-deceased by his parents, brother Tom Tolman, several nieces and nephews and brothers and sisters-in-law. He is survived by his wife, Charleen, daughters Catherine Tolman and Karen Ryan, grandson Matthew Ryan, sister Ruth Helland and nieces and nephews.
Charles graduated from St Cloud Tech High School. He attended college at St Cloud State and transferred to the University of Minnesota where he obtained a degree in Physics. He was a Research Physicist in the computer industry at Univac, GE, Control Data and Seagate. Charles was awarded 15 patents during his career. His lifelong passion was cars which began in a high school car club. He maintained, built and raced cars. Charles' travels took him to interesting places including Central America, Easter Island, Egypt, Greece, Ireland and England
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