The Excelsior Standard, June 23, 2023

Tamara “Tammy” D. Toler, age 74 , passed away on June 8, 2023, at Shangri-La Rehab & Living Center in Blue Springs, and with additional support provided by Three Rivers Hospice. After a lifelong battle with mental illness and a long fight with the debilitating heath conditions COPD and CHF, she peacefully lost her fight.

Tammy was born on Aug. 27, 1948, to Willard F. Bosler and Bessie M. Vratislovsky Bosler in Gilroy, Calif. Her parents relocated to Kansas City, Kansas, in Wyandotte County at a young age. She considered KCK her home and felt strongly connected to her roots there, where she started her own family.

She attended elementary school in KCK and graduated in 1966 from Washington High School, also in KCK. She went on to study nursing, for which she had an incredible passion for her patients and had a huge ability to connect to her health care career.

She enjoyed reading books, and socializing with her friends and grandchildren over the last couple of years.

In 1982, she met Wayne Toler, and they married Dec. 1, 1984. They relocated in 1989 to the area of Liberty, where they lived their lives together.

Tammy is survived by two children, Willard “Allen” Yoakum of Liberty and Melody “Mel” Blyth (husband Jeff Blyth) of Orrick. She also is survived by four grandchildren, Samantha McClellan of Phoenix Ariz., Summer McClellan of Linn Valley, Kan., Marcus Mc-Clellan (spouse Sierra) and Brandon Osborne of Richmond; and two great-grandchildren, Genesis and Serenity McClellan.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne Toler; and mother and father, Willard and Bessie Bosler.

Family and friends attended a viewing/visitation 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, June 17, at Gowing Funeral Home at 202 Adams St., Orrick. Loved ones can send all flowers, cards or anything for the family to this location as well.