Las Vegas Age, December 5, 2003, Clark County, Nevada  
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LAS VEGAS AGE
9/12/1914

DIED

TOPH:  In Los Angeles, California, Sunday afternoon Sept. 6, 1914, Frank 
E. TOPH, aged 46 years.  The funeral was held under the auspices of Los 
Angeles Lodge No. 99, B.P.O.E., from the chapel of Robert Sharp & Son, 
Los Angeles, Wednesday at 2 o'clock.
    Such is the brief record of the passing of one whom it was a 
pleasure to call friend.  Since the year 1907 Frank has been a resident 
of this city nearly all the time.  He was the city marshall for several 
years, until declining health compelled him to relinquish the position, 
ever performing his duty in a quiet impartial manner which won for him 
the friendship even of those he was instrumental in bringing before the 
law.  He was a member in good standing of the Goldfield Lodge B.P.O.E.  
He leaves no near relatives surviving him so far as is known here, 
nearly all of his family having died of the dread white plague.  That 
insiduous disease laid its claiming hand upon Frank many months ago, 
marking him for the grave.  Yet, with death each day approaching closer 
and staring him in the face with a never softening gaze, Frank gave 
forth no complaint nor flinched from the encounter.  In the face of 
approaching death he was cheerful and companionable so that many were 
filled with surprise that the end had come so soon, not knowing that for 
weeks the steady approach of the end had been known to himself and a few 
of his closer friends.  To a friend and a kindly companion, to a man 
among men who was not afraid to live his life aright and who flinched 
from no encounter, even that final one with the grim angel of death, we 
say "Farewell."  And may it be given to us who have still the way to 
travel, to do our duty as unflinchingly and meet our fate as 
uncomplainingly as did Frank E. TOPH.

LAS VEGAS AGE
2/6/1915

RE-INTERMENT

    Eagle's Aerie 1213, F.O.E., have purchased 40 lots in the city 
cemetery and are removing the bodies of their brothers buried in the old 
cemetery, to the new location.
    Those whose graves are being moved are James MAGNER, who died Oct. 
10, 1911, John E. PENAULT, May 7, 1910, and Charles W. CROWLEY, Feb. 8, 
1911, all of whom were buried under the auspices of the Aerie.
    Three brothers have passed away the past year; Fred KNECHT, who was 
buried in the new cemetery, and Frank E. TOPH and E. A. DODSON, both of 
whom repose in Glendale Cemetery, Los Angeles.