Very few people have affected my life like Toby did. I will miss him very much.
Toby Biddle helped many achieve their visionary projects -- such as reaching out to Bill Strickland and his Bidwell Training Center in Manchester -- which changed Western Pennsylvania for the better.
The Very Rev. George L.W. Werner, dean emeritus of Trinity (Episcopal) Cathedral, Downtown, said Mr. Biddle was among the individuals who was able to provide Strickland with necessary funding to continue his work when he faced financial problems.
Livingston L. "Toby" Biddle III of Ligonier and Boca Grande, Fla., retired executive vice president of Parker/Hunter Inc., died on Sunday, April 26, 2009, in his home. He was 82.
"My father understood the necessity of gainful employment for those who didn't have the means or the contacts for obtaining an education," said Nick Biddle of Bend, Ore.
"Dad felt the training at Bidwell was a positive step for men and women to enable themselves to pull up their bootstraps and become successful citizens of a community, much as he did in his youth," his son added.
"Dad loved this country and enlisted in the Marines in 1943, after he graduated from Woodberry Academy in Warrenton, Va. And although he spent the war as an MP in Hawaii, he was proud to have served when his country needed him."
By working, and with the help of the GI Bill, Mr. Livingston, upon being discharged from the Marines in 1946, earned his degree from the University of Virginia.
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