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CLYDE H. TOPPING
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Clyde H. Topping, begs leave to submit the following:
Clyde H. Topping was born in Nees County, Kansas on January 8, 1884, son of John W. and Ida Johnston Topping, one of five children.
Mr. Topping attended the State University of Iowa, and later married Helen Young in Burlington on May 21, 1908. As a young man Mr. Topping farmed in Saskatchewan, Canada, later becoming a colonization agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1928 he entered Iowa politics and served in the Forty-second and Forty-third General Assemblies. Subsequently he was associated with Home Owners Loan, and later with the Iowa State Tax Commission. In recent years he had operated the Topping business.
Mr. Topping was a member of First Congregational Church and of the Burlington Golf Club.
He died Wednesday, October 31, 1962, in the Burlington Hospital, Burlington, Iowa.
In addition to his widow, Mr. Topping is survived by a son and a daughter: Clyde Hamilton Topping, Jr., Waterloo, and Mrs. Berkeley Mcintosh of Rockford, Illinois. There are nine grandchildren. Also surviving are four sisters: Mrs. Daniel Upp, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Mrs. Frank Lyons, Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Leslie Wilson, Davenport, and Mrs. Walter Metz of Burlington, Iowa. A daughter, Alice, and a brother, Glen, preceded him in death.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixtieth General Assembly: That in the passing of Clyde H. Topping, the state has lost a valuable, loyal and honored citizen, and by this resolution tenders its sincere sympathy to the members of the family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to forward an enrolled copy to each member of his family.
ROBERT R. DODDS,
CLIFFORD M. VANCE,
SEELEY G. LODWICK,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.