Topham obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

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Topham, Dwight Melvin        23 Jan 2003    Jan 2003    Don Johnson
Topham, Lorraine Albarado    15 May 2011    May 2011    Jerry Nelson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on:  1/23/2003
TOPHAM, DWIGHT MELVIN      

A retired employee of Exxon Refinery, he died at 6:55 p.m. Friday, Jan. 
17, 2003, at his residence in Baton Rouge. He was 67 and a native of New 
Orleans. He was a U.S. Marine Corps. veteran. Body was donated to LSU 
School of Medicine. Memorial service at Bethel Baptist Church, Kentwood, 
at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, 2003, conducted by the Rev. Isreal Shaw and 
the Rev. Darryl Crain. Survived by his wife, Gwyndolyn Alford Topham; 
stepmother, Lorraine Topham; three daughters, Cynthia Breland and 
husband Kevin, Belle Chase, Eline Naquin, Gonzales, and Darlene Topham, 
Marrero; a son, Dwight Topham Jr. and friend Pam McAllister, 
Prairieville; a stepson, Gary Alford, Baton Rouge; four sisters, Irma 
Crain and husband, W.J., San Antonio, Doris Read, Ponchatoula, Martha 
Jackson, Brusly, and Barbara Piano; a brother, Gerald Topham, Mount 
Vernon, Wash.; an aunt, Rosa Mae Alberes; mother-in-law, Eline "Tippy" 
Ballow; and four grandchildren, Amanda Craven, Paul Naquin III, Kevin 
Breland Jr. and Zachary Breland. Preceded in death his first wife, 
Susie Topham; father, Dwight Topham; mother, Rosemary Piano; and a 
brother, Joe Piano. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made 
to Bethel Baptist Church, Kentwood, or Cancer Services of Greater Baton 
Rouge.  
     
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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on:  5/15/2011

TOPHAM, LORRAINE ALBARADO
She was 81, born Jan. 15, 1930, in Paincourtville, and passed away at The 
Carpenter House of St. Joseph Hospice at 7:30 a.m. Friday, May 13, 2011. 
Visiting at Wilbert Funeral Home, Port Allen, on Monday, May 16, from 
9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at St. 
John the Baptist Catholic Church in Brusly at noon, with the Rev. Matt 
Dupre, celebrant. Interment in the church cemetery. Survived by a sister, 
Rosa Hebert and husband Ronnie Alveres, Brusly; three daughters and two 
sons-in-law, Irma and W.J. Crain, San Antonio, Doris Read, Ponchatoula, 
and Martha and Elliot "Red" Daigle, of Brusly; a son, Gerald Topham, of 
Washington state; nine grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and five 
great-great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her husband, Dwight 
Topham; son, Dwight Melvin Topham; parents, Joseph and Doris Himel 
Albarado; daughter-in-law, Susie Topham; and son-in-law, Rudolph Jackson. 
She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, Lions Club and the 
Iberville Parish Quilters Guild. Special thanks to the doctors and staff 
of The Carpenter House of St. Joseph Hospice for all of their loving care. 
Please share sympathies, condolences, and memories online at 
www.wilbertservices.com.
     
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