DL Capt. Louis Bernard Toney Jr.

Cares & Concerns

10/30 … Captain Louis Toney, (Delta pilot class of April 1961),  moved back to his boyhood home of Little Rock around ten years ago and has been a regular at our monthly retired pilot lunches.  However, on Monday morning, Oct. 26, his wife was unable to awaken him.  Louis had suffered a massive stroke and doctors have been unable to get any kind of a response from his body or from his brain.  Yesterday, in consultation with the doctors, his wife & daughter had to make the difficult decision to transfer him to a hospice.  This is a sad day for his family and for his friends. 

11/3 … Captain Louis Toney passed away today with his wife and daughter at his side. 

Louis Bernard Toney, Jr.   

July 31, 1932 -  November 3, 2015

DL hire date 04-17-1961

Louis “Bunny” Bernard Toney, former Naval Aviator and retired airline captain took his flight west on November 3, 2015. He passed away at Hospice Home Care in Little Rock due to complications from a stroke.  

He was born in Clarksdale, MS, on July 31, 1932 to Louis Bernard Toney and Barbre Parker Toney. He is preceded in death by his parents and beloved grandmother, Ann Parker. He is survived by his wife, Tanya Toney and daughter Barbre (Trent) Jackson, both of Little Rock, his sister Gerry Ann (Gerald) McCoy of Dallas, TX, step-daughter Andrea (Larry) Anderson and grandson Cole Anderson of Houston, TX.

He graduated from Central High School in 1950. While there he was a proud member of the PIE fraternity, with whom he has enjoyed monthly luncheons until this time. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he pledged the Kappa Sig fraternity.

In 1953, Louis joined the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aviation Cadet. After his tour of duty he was hired as a pilot for Delta Air Lines, a career spanning nearly thirty years.
Louis enjoyed many activities, especially snow skiing in the winter, golf in the summer, and horse races at Oaklawn in the spring. Louis and Tanya enjoyed traveling to Europe and Asia many times, and then settling on relaxing cruises to far away destinations.

Services will be at 2:00 P.M., Saturday, November 7, 2015 at the Roller-Chenal Funeral Chapel, 13801 Chenal Parkway, Little Rock, AR 72211 (501) 224-8300 with final burial at a later date at Restland Cemetery in Dallas, TX.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association, American Heart Association, National Center, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231. https://donatenow.heart.org/.