Obit: Topper, Helen Agnes (1910 - 2007)

Transcribed by: Crystal Wendt

Surnames: Topper, Odness, Szulczewski, McDonald

---Source: Foto News (Merrill, Lincoln County, Wis.) Wednesday, 24 Jan. 2007; page 10

---Topper, Helen Agnes (17 Aug. 1910 - 22 Jan. 2007)

Helen A. Topper

Helen Agnes Topper, 96, of Merrill, passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 22, 2007, at Aspirus Comfort Care and Hospice House in Wausau.

Helen was born Aug. 17, 1910, in the town of Blue Mounds to Ole and Oline Odness Topper. On Nov. 16, 1931, she married Milo Topper in Winona, Minn.

Helen was baptized as an infant and confirmed a youth at West Blue Mounds Lutheran Church and was a high school graduate. She was a charter member of the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Rothschild, serving on the Altar Guild, Ladies Circle and an active member of the church. Since moving to Merrill in 1996 she became a member of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church. She joined the Sara Circle and became close friends with many members at Our Saviour's as she had with her many good friends at Mount Calvary. She was a homemaker and maintained beautiful flower gardens. She loved to read and worked with both the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. She loved helping others and guided many in her life opening her heart and home to them.

Helen is survived by daughter Julie (Patrick) Szulczewski, Merrill; and son Clark (Nilah McDonald) Topper, Scituate, Mass.; and many special nieces, nephews, cousins, the Dodd family and a host of dear friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Milo, five sisters, four brothers, and special aunts and uncles.

Thank you one and all who knew her for her kind friendship. She will be missed by all and remembered for her love. She is now at peace with her Lord.

Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Merrill. Visitation will be from noon until the time of the services at the church. Burial will be in Mount Horeb Union cemetery, Mount Horeb at 1 p.m. Friday. The Waid Funeral Home, Merrill, is handling the arrangements.

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