FLORENCE (HAMMERMEISTER) TOPP

Mrs. Elmer (Florence A.) Topp, 75, of 3110 Coolidge Place, Manitowoc, died late
Tuesday afternoon, January 20, 1987, at North Ridge Care Center, Manitowoc.
Funeral services will be 1:30 pm Friday at Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Rev. Lyle L. Luchterhand will officiate with burial to follow at Evergreen
Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Mrs. Topp was born March 19, 1911 at Marinette, Wisconsin, daughter of the late
Otto and Florence Reines Hammermeister. She moved to Manitowoc as a child with
her family and graduated from Manitowoc Schools and living in Manitowoc the rest
of her life. She married Elmer J. Topp on July 1, 1944 at Los Angeles, California.
He preceded her in death November 3, 1981. Mrs. Topp was a member of Bethany
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manitowoc Garden club and United Commercial Travelers
Auxiliary.
Survivors include a daughter and a son-in-law, Marge and Larry Witt of Middleton,
Wisconsin; a brother and a sister-in-law, Robert and Ethel Hammermeister of
Manitowoc, nieces, nephews and other relatives survive.
Friends may call at Reinbold and Pfeffer State Street Chapel, from 5 pm to 8 pm
this Thursday and Friday at the church from 12 noon until the hour of service.
Memorials may be made to Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Thurs., Jan. 22, 1987 page 18
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Announcement has been received of the marriage of Miss Florence Hammermeister,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hammermeister, 605 S. 18th street, and Sgt.
Elmer J. Topp of Fond du Lac, stationed at March field in California. The double
ring ceremony was performed at the Lutheran chapel in Los Angeles on July 1.
For her wedding the bride was attired in a two piece white piquet dress with
matching accessories and pinned to her shoulder was a corsage of deep purple
orchids.
Sgt. and Mrs. Topp are honeymooning for a month in southern California.
Manitowoc Herald Times, July 25, 1944 P. 5
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[widow of Elmer Topp]