Sept. 23, 1947 –
Nov. 22, 2022
Sidney Tolbert passed away Tuesday November 22, 2022 in Battle Mountain, Nevada.
He was 75. Sidney was born on September 23, 1947 in Delta, Utah to Lloyd and Hildred Tolbert. He grew up in Abraham, an idyllic little settlement just outside of Delta.
This was a perfect place for Sid as his main interests involved hunting, travelling on horseback, and causing trouble.
Before graduating from high school, he spent a summer drilling water wells and living with his brother-in-law Jim and sister Dixie.
The drilling really suited him and so after graduating from Delta High School in 1965, he began doing exploratory drilling all over the Western United States.
Good times were had, life was lived, and love was found. He met Micky Logozzo and married her on December 31, 1970 after she agreed to “mother” him.
It didn’t take long before Sid and Micky started their family with their first born coming in October of 1971.
They moved around for a little while longer with the drilling jobs and a machinist apprenticeship, before Micky talked him into settling down in Delta, Utah to raise a family.
There were no great paying jobs for Sid in Delta and he knew it but he told her that “he would pick the white out of chicken crap for her”.
He worked on a dairy, drove truck, worked on farms, whatever it took to support/raise his family. He was able to pick drilling up again in Nevada and moved the family for the final time to Battle Mountain, Nevada in 1988.
Sid was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
He was a great Home Teacher and did his best to serve in whatever calling he was given. Sid was a fantastic Husband, Father, Grampa, Brother, Friend and will be missed by all.
He was an avid hunter who loved to be outdoors tooling around in the desert and mountains looking to blast rabbits, squirrels, coyotes, and deer or just look for brass.
His dry, self-satisfying sense of humor will be missed greatly. Got heem!
A bad car accident, when he was a young driller, took the sight from one eye, the peripheral vision from the other eye and his sense of smell but he never used that as an excuse for anything.
Sid was always a doer, not a procrastinator and never a complainer. He was always busy, except when Gunsmoke or Jeopardy were on.
He is survived by his sister Dixie and brother Keith; children Thane and Olivia, Micah and Kalee, Seth and Amber, Beau and Sarah, Rachel and Mike, Trinity and Ray; Grandchildren Jed, Jade, Sid, DJ, Travis, Olive, Hazel, Grady, Bryn, Deandra, Jeter, Burklee, Emma, Rocky, Mikel; Great-Grandchildren David, Violet, Jed Jr, and Liv.
He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Micky; parents, Lloyd and Hildred Tolbert; brothers Clark, Ray, and Louis Tolbert; and his first-born son, Travis.
There will be graveside services held for Sid in Delta, Utah next spring.
