Ken Tollet

Received: September 2022 (by email)

From:         Paul Tollet
 

Ken Tollet was born in January 1934 and brought up with his 4 siblings in the Eagle Vaults pub in Rosevale off Great Homer Street, where his Dad Edward, who had served in the Liverpool Scottish in the trenches, was the publican.

The family refused for the children to be evacuated, and stayed together in Liverpool during the war, despite the pub being 'bombed out' whilst they slept in the cellar.  He passed the 11+ and went to Liverpool Collegiate which he was very proud of and thoroughly enjoyed.  He commissioned a painting of the school from one of his nephews, and was in pride of place on his lounge wall. 

At 15 he joined Jacobs Biscuits in Aintree, and was to work for them for the next 49 years except for 2 years National Service in the RAF spent at Swinderby in Lincolnshire.

He met Pat at Jacobs and they married in West Derby, and had two children.  He had a passion for rugby from his school days, and continued to play for Southport until he was 40.  He was widowed in 1976.

He married for a second time to Ann, and adopted her children, and they had a further son.    In the early 1980's he accepted a new job within the company and moved to Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, whilst working in Reading.

He continued to live there until his death.

A shareholder, and life long Evertonian he regularly went to games in the south, and returned to Merseyside whenever he could to watch the blues.

He died in May 2021 after a number of years of declining health.