- Winston A. Toft
July 10, 1933 - August 18, 2022
Sacramento, California -
Winston Anders Toft ("Papa"), 89, of Elk Grove, passed on August 18, 2022. Winston was born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 10, 1933 to Harvey and Lillian Toft. He graduated from the University of Omaha in 1956 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and he also earned a Master in Business Administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He served his country by enlisting in the U.S. Air Force from May 15, 1956 to June 30, 1968. While stationed in Seville, Spain, he met and married his wife of 60 years, Maria De Los Angeles Valverde Conradi in October, 1961. He also was stationed at Grissom AFB, Indiana. He retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Capitan in 1968. He later became a Major while serving in the Air Force Reserves. After retiring from active duty, he worked as an internal Air Force Auditor at Kelly AFB in San Antonio, Texas from 1968 to 1978 and at McClellan AFB from 1978 to his retirement in 1993.
Winston was a wonderful, caring and thoughtful son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and friend. He was very much involved in his children and grandchildren lives. He was extremely intelligent with many interests that included family, traveling, music, sports and politics. He loved all types of music as evidenced from his CD collection that included music from Country & Western to grand opera. He was a yearly visitor to the Sacramento Music Festival as he always looked forward to this event.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Maria Toft, children Paul Toft (Debra), Angela Gregoire (David), Larry Toft (Deana) & James Toft (Christina), sisters Laurine Sorenson and Janice Weeks, grandchildren, Steven Toft, Michael Toft, Nathan Gregoire, Jonathan Gregoire, Nicholas Gregoire, Cayley Toft, Lyndsey Toft, Joshua Toft, Tyler Toft, and Kayla Toft, and great grandchildren Makenna Toft and Rhett Gregoire.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am September 8th at St. John the Evangelist Parish, 5751 Locust Avenue, Carmichael, CA. Reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, contributions in memory of Winston may be made to the American Diabetes Association.
Published by The Sacramento Bee on Sep. 3, 2022.
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