DAVID ANTHONY "TONY" KARSNIA

DAVID ANTHONY "TONY" KARSNIA of East Bethel, MN died November 2, 2020 at the age of 49. He worked for United Coach and Johnson-Williams Funeral Car Service in Minneapolis for several years before becoming the business manager of Spielman Mortuary in St. Paul. In 2013, Tony earned his Bachelor of Science degree with a major in mortuary science from the University of Minnesota. Since then, he has been employed as a licensed mortician with Thurston-Lindberg-DeShaw Funeral Homes of Anoka and Andover. Tony joined The Professional Car Society in 1986. He founded the Northland Chapter while he was a senior in high school and was subsequently involved in the formation of two additional chapters. Tony hosted three international meets and countless regional meets, served as president from 2014 to 2020 and was the first president in the Society's forty-year history to be elected to three consecutive terms. He was also selected as a third caretaker of the very last Cadillac ambulance built, a 1979 Superior Cadillac, which is a historically significant vehicle that currently remains in the Karsnia Collection.