Date: 8/5/2009 to 9/12/2009
Egons “Tony” Tons, 84, of
passed away peacefully at his home on June 2, 2009. Tony was born on April 26,
1925 in
Tons on their family farm Druvas. During his late teens, he and his family
survived a fearful year under Soviet occupation. So, in 1944, during the German
occupation of
he left his family to work for the German Air Force. He would not return for 48
years and never saw his parents again. After the war ended, Tony lived for
several years in refugee camps in
until he received a scholarship to attend
There he met and fell forever in love with Susanne Weilbauer from Ecuador
(originally from Germany), and after graduating from Antioch College with his
Bachelors degree in 1953, they were married in Susanne’s home city of Quito,
Ecuador.