Henry W. “Hank” Toll Jr., former Denver deputy coroner and a member of one of Denver’s oldest law firms, Shafroth & Toll, died Oct. 14 after a brief illness. He was 84.
Dr. Toll, the second of four kids, was raised just a few doors from the house where he spent nearly his entire adult life near East Eighth Avenue and Vine Street.
He and his wife, Lydia, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in that house just two weeks before he died.
Toll went to Graland, Dora Moore, Morey and Randall schools before graduating from Deerfield Academy and Williams College in Massachusetts, where he played varsity lacrosse. Toll later introduced the sport to Colorado, founding the Denver Lacrosse Club, which played in Cheesman Park.
