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| Topping, Johnny 226183 |
| Birth: 11/12/1915 Death: 07/21/2001 Marriage: 03/06/1939 |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Monday, July 23, 2001: 'BOGATA - Johnny Topping, 85, of Bogata died Saturday, July 21, 2001, in Red River Health Care Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, in First Baptist Church of Bogata with the Rev. Bob Posey officiating. Burial will be in Bogata Cemetery by Wood Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 8 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Mr. Topping was born Nov. 12, 1915, in Millerton, Okla., to Daniel M. and Francis C. Sanford Topping. He married Willie Mae Skidmore March 6, 1939. He and his wife operated a grocery store in Bogata for several years. He was a retired carpenter and was a longtime member, Sunday school teacher, and a deacon of First Baptist Church of Bogata, having been ordained in 1966. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Linda Williams of Prattville, Ala., and Kay Selman of Lufkin; two sisters, Carrine Alford and Lucille Pettit, both of Bogata; 10 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren; two sons-in-law, Norris Phipps of Tenaha, Texas and James Watts of Rockwall. He was preceded in death by 2 daughters, Wanda Lou Phipps July 3, 1985, and Johnnie Mac Watts, Oct. 19, 2000. Pallbearers will be the Deacon Board of First Baptist Church.' |