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Norman Tokar

Norman Tokar

Judith Anderson (View posts)
Posted: 17 Mar 2004 5:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Am trying to trace relatives of Norman Tokar. Would appreciate any information you may have. Thank you

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 6 Dec 2004 7:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Do you have any information about him? Dates, places, etc.

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 18 Mar 2007 7:28PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: tokar
Are you still looking for information on Norman Tokar?
My dad was Norman Tokar,

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 2 Apr 2007 10:20PM GMT
Classification: Query
Was your mother a famous actor? What was it your father did for a living? Thank you so much for answering me, I am very excited about this. Fingers crossed.

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 2 Apr 2007 10:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Was your mother a famous actor? What was it your father did for a living? Thank you so much for answering me, I am very excited about this. Fingers crossed.
Judith Anderson

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 2 Apr 2007 10:28PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: tokar
My stepmother was the actress Phyllis Coates who played Lois Lane on Superman. My dad, Norman, was a director/producer for Disney Studios. He started his career as an actor on the radio and then was involved with many major sitcoms in the early days of TV. Hope this is a good connection.
My mom, Grace Menkes, was Norman's first wife. He was a pretty prolific fellow and had 3 legal wives, 1 common law and NUMEROUS lady friends. :-).
Please let me know if this helps. Even if it isn't what you are looking for, I would appreciate knowing why you are search. Maybe we can help each other.
Thanks for responding
Debbie Tokar Schneider

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 8 Dec 2007 10:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tokar
Hello Debbie,
I am sooo very glad to have heard from you. I apologize for taking to so long to get back to you but i have no home computer and the company i worked for no longer allowed access to personal computers.
The reason i posted the message looking for information about Norman Tokar is that i grew up being told he was somehow a cousin to my father. My father's name was Stephen John Toker, his father was Stephen P. Tokar. Stephen was born in PA and my father was born in Minn. My grandmother's maiden name was Zelinski. I don't know if any of this rings a bell with you. I know more about your side of the family than i do my own. Not sure why but my dad was not that forthcoming with family history. Ironically my brother Bruce was in a production at the San Diego Old Globe in the Merry Wives of Windsor with Will Geer. I went to school with his son. Small world.
I do hope we can stay in touch as you don't know how many years i have tried to trace your father's family to see if we are indeed related. (Don't think there is a Leave It To Beaver i have ever missed :)
I will look forward to hearing more from you and when i write next (am on a temp assignment) will tell you about a wonderful man i "met" during my search.
Have a wonderful Holiday and do keep in touch.
Judith

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 9 Dec 2007 12:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
How awesome to connect with someone. Even if we aren't related, it's always fun to meet new people. I don't know much about my dad's family except that they came from Odessa in the early 1900's. They had 2 sons, my dad, Norman and Fritz, who was a few years older. I have traced the Tokar back to Ellis Island so somewhere I have the exact years. I seem to think it was about 1917 and Dad was born in 1919 (or 1920) in Newark, NJ.
How lucky for you to have found someone while surfing and searching. My husband of 30 years died suddenly in May a few weeks after his 70th birthday. What a shocker. He was skiing in Feb with our daughter and had played tennis that weekend with our son. We were heading to Mexico to SCUBA dive for our 30th anniversary.
Since I spent 1/2 my life with him, it is a pretty big void! He was gentle, kind, stable and really handsome. That's not just my opinion, everyone thought he was 10 years younger. I used to joke that he'd sold his soul to the devil and somewhere a picture of him was aging as he was not!
I am getting my life back together. Luckily I'd been single until I was 30 so being single again isn't as shocking as it is to some women who never lived on their own, but it is really wierd to be back in the "single" world at 61! I've kept myself in fairly decent shape, but 60 is 60 no matter how you slice it :-). I live in SC, but my daugher is in CA. I wish we lived closer. My son enlisted in the Marines a few months after Roger died. He finished boot camp last month and is now at Infantry School in NC.
Keep in touch when you can. My regular email is whatusea@aol.com.
Thanks for contacting. Have a wonderful holiday.
Debbie

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 9 Dec 2007 12:16AM GMT
Classification: Query
So sorry, I just had a message about a post and saw your post from months ago. It came in April I think and my husband of 30 years died in early May so I kind of lost a few months.
My mom was not the actress. It was Phyllis Coates, wife number 2 or 3. My mom was Grace Menkes of Newark, NJ.
Hope this is helpful, contact me directly if you want to at whatusea@aol.com

Re: Norman Tokar

Posted: 30 Jul 2008 3:23AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tokar
Hi, Judith.

I saw that your father was born in Minnesota? My grandfather, Francis Cyril Tokar (he went by Frank) was born in Minneapolis in 1903. He was the youngest of 13 children. I am looking for any information on his family, in particular information on his parents. Are you part of this family?

Thank you,
Lois
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