Arnold Laverne Topp

He was born Oct. 21, 1929, in Adams Neb., the son of Harry and Wobbca (Birkson) Topp. He graduated from Panama High School in Panama, Neb., in 1948.

Mr. Topp served in the U.S. Army. He was a farmer for seven years and was a service representative and salesman for Osha Rodgers Ford Tractor Division in Lincoln, Neb. He also worked for Allis-Chalmers, David Brown, Franklin County Implement and GEM Farm Center. He started TT&T Body Shop in Richmond in 1978 and retired from TT&T Salvage & Towing Inc. in 1998. He was a member of Ottawa Bible Church.

He married Dorothy Dena Huenink on Dec. 15, 1949. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include three daughters, Linda Durbin, Lubbock, Tex., Betty Currie, Lawrence, and Lorna Ellisor, Cleveland, Tex.; a son, Mike, Richmond; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Lamb-Roberts-Heise Funeral Home in Ottawa.

The family suggests memorials to the church, sent to the funeral home, P.O. Box 14, Ottawa 66067.