 He is buried at Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, next to his father, Edward H. Tinsley, who was buried on November 19, 1948, and his mother, Viola Mae Tinsley, who was buried on June 1, 1987.His brother, Harold Edward Tinsley is also buried there, and was buried on July 6, 2007.In 1957, Tinsley appeared as a guest challenger on the television game show "To Tell the Truth".