It is with great sadness that Kings Island mourns the loss of its manager of rides maintenance, Tom Dillingham, who passed away Thursday at the age of 61.

More on the KIBlog: 

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2020/june/kings-island-mourns-the-passing-of-tom-dillingham

 

Rest in peace, Tom. Thank you for keeping all of us safe at Kings Island.

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I don't think we can all appreciate enough the work he and maintenance staff does for us (the KI guests) every day.

Thank you Tom for your years of hard work, along with the rest of the maintenance staff for everything you do to keep the KI rides in such great shape year round.

KICentral is keeping the whole KI family in our thoughts during the difficult time. 

What a loss for the KI community.

The Cincinnati Enquirer ran an article, but I had no idea that "Helbig ...... has ridden The Beast well over 12,000 times, including a record-setting 112 times in one day."  But it must be true since the newspaper article says so...

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/06/13/kings-islands-long-time-rides-maintenance-manager-has-passed-away/3185491001/

Edited June 16, 20206 yr by disco2000
Newspaper made an edit correction today LOL