RALPH STOLL

Ralph Foeste Stoll, 81, of Arnold, Md., died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1998, at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md.

He was born Sept. 17, 1917, in Cape Girardeau. He and Ruth Esther Wagner were married in 1944. She died in 1982.

Stoll was a 1935 graduate of the former College High School.

A retired commander, Stoll served in the U.S. Navy from 1938-66. He served on a tanker and a destroyer repair ship, and then the United States Ships Tuscaloosa, Makassar Straits, Randall, New, Hyman, Cross, and Pollux.

He attended the University of Utah under the Holloway Plan, and graduated from the General Line School in Newport, R.I., in 1950.; taught two years at the CIC School in Boston, Mass.; and retired from the Naval Research Laboratory. Stoll received several campaign and service medals.

Stoll had lived in Arnold 32 years, and was a founding member of Gloria Deil Lutheran Church.

Survivors include two sons, retired captain Ralph Stoll of Silverdale, Wash., Henry Stoll of Tacoma, Wash.; two daughters, Amelia Bailey of Owings, Md., Ruth Renaud of Chicago; and six grandchildren.

Private graveside service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

Barranco and Sons Funeral Home in Severna Park, Md., is in charge of arrangements.