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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271607
Title: Phyllis I. Topp
Date: 3/24/1930-4/12/2025
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 3/24/1930
Summary: Phyllis Ione Topp, 95, passed away April 12, 2025, at the Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd, New Rockford, ND. A funeral service was held April 17, 2025, at Grace Lutheran Church, Grace City, ND. Burial was at the Grace City Cemetery. Phyllis Anderson was born in Nelson County, ND, on March 24,1930, to Carl and Mabel (Foreng) Anderson of Hamar, ND. She was confirmed at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, rural Hamar, ND, in 1944 and graduated from high school at Tolna, ND, in 1948. She then went to Minot Teachers College where she received her teaching certificate. Phyllis taught school for two years in rural Cherry Lake school. While teaching school she met her husband, Wayne. They were united in marriage July 23, 1950, and had 73 years together. They started their married life at a farm near Grace City. In 1978, they moved to New Rockford. Phyllis loved being outside in her yard tending to the flower beds. Her passion was mowing the yard. Because no one could mow straight lines to her satisfaction, at 90 years old she still push mowed her yard. She was an avid Midkota Fan and spent many nights on the bleachers watching BB games or concerts. She made countless pans of Special K bars over the years. She did not visit family without bringing her “special treat” or have them in the freezer for us to find. Phyllis is survived by her children, Lynn (Mary) Topp, Detroit Lakes, MN, Lisa Ashby, Nashville, TN, and Jill (Michael) Thompson, Red Willow Lake, Binford, ND; 11 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, 2 great-great grandchildren; sister-in-law, Joyce Anderson; and many nieces and nephews. Phyllis was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne; her parents, Carl and Mabel Anderson; a brother, Marvin Anderson; in-laws, Fred and Jennie Topp; son-in-law, Thaddeus Ashby; brother and sister-in-law, Russell and Vera Topp; and sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and Clayton Rost.
Red ID: FND_I_79104 Image ID: 525944 Image Notes: FND001 271607

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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