To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 12/31/21 • Approved: 1/2/22 • Last Updated: 1/5/22 • R476981-G0-S3
US Army
World War II
February 9, 1926-October 30, 2006
Wed July 20, 1946
Shared stone with Estelle M.
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Borger with Pastor James Baker, Primitive Baptist Church, and Don Watson officiating.
Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday. Arrangements are entrusted to Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mr. Topper was born Feb. 9, 1926, in Wheeler County, and was a resident of Borger. He attended school at Myrtle, Okla., for four years, then to Allison where Myrtle and Allison consolidated.
He worked on A. Finsterwald Ranch from 1941-1944. He then went into the U.S. Army in 1944 and was a World War II veteran. He went to Fort Riley, Kan., for basic training, then to Burma and was there for two years as a sergeant in transportation. After that he went to work as a general foreman for SPS until 1986 when he retired.
He was a member of Borger Primitive Baptist Church for 32 years. He was a deacon for many years and served as church treasurer for 25 years.
He married Estelle Aderholt on July 20, 1946, in Wheeler.
He was preceded in death by a daughter Kathy Snelson on June 19, 2003; his parents, George and Nancy Topper; three brothers and one sister Katie Finsterwald.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Jimmy Topper of Borger and Phil Topper of Amarillo; two sisters, Mary Ann Maxwell of Wheeler and Wanda Mitchell of Pampa; seven grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.
Casket bearers will be Matt Artzborge, Spike Snelson, Jake Topper, Trevor Topper, Don Allen, Larry Anderson, Mike Lister, and Tom Cassida.
Honorary casket bearers will be SPS workers, Lindsey Patterson, Earnest Hardy, Willie Griffin, and Rodney Neeley.
Memorials may be made to the American Lung Association of Texas, PO Box 26460, Austin 78755-0460.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 3, 2006)
Contributed on 12/31/21
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 476981