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We’ve lost a member of the Toppy family

February 19, 2018 By Scott 2 Comments

There would be no Tophour.com without Brian Davis. He was the founder of this site and is still our spiritual guru, even long after he handed off management of the site to the current bozos.

One reason Brian had to dump Toppy duties on our heads was the ongoing health battles of his wife, “TLMD, the Lovely Mrs. Davis,” or simply Heather. Her long fight ended last week and we all miss her dearly.

Brian asked that in her memory, we share her self-penned death notice as widely as possible. And we’re happy to do it, because the woman was funny as hell. (No, really – you thought Brian’s posts here were clever? He married up. Way up. We’re just saying.)

So we send our deepest condolences somewhere way out I-80 to Iowa and the Davis and Neal families as we share Heather’s farewell.

(PS – when she writes that “she tolerated her husband”? She really, truly did. Even the parts with all the boomboxes and airchecks. And that’s a rare thing indeed.)

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Heather Lynn Davis told this world to get lost on Friday, February 16, 2018.

She was born on July 28, 1973, and adopted shortly thereafter by Walter and Rose Neal. Turns out you really can choose your family. Upon realizing that she’d proven that piece of conventional wisdom wrong, she decided to make proving the world wrong her life’s goal.

Well, that and becoming Mrs. Donnie Wahlberg. You can’t always get what you want.

She graduated from Wahlert High School and Northeast Iowa Community College. In a moment of apparent weakness, she married Brian Davis on April 17, 2004, and upon realizing her mistake, adopted three fur babies of her own: Bob, Gordon and Chuck.

She liked musicals, bad movies and TV procedurals. She loved to cross stitch and read. She was into Chinese food, wine and her mom’s pie. She liked making the house look like Santa threw up each December. In much the same way some people buy underwear, she bought purses. She worked in a bakery but still liked donuts. She went to Mexico. She went to Hawaii. She went to Spain. (She did not go to Oklahoma). Like many kids her age, she became obsessed with New Kids On The Block and Janet Jackson. Unlike many kids her age, she got to meet them, and the aforementioned Donnie Wahlberg palmed her head like a basketball. It was difficult to get her to wash her face after that. She transcribed doctors’ notes at a mental health clinic, ran the art department for a craft store and liked the people at her cancer center so much, she went to work there. Some people there received home care as well from https://homecareassistance.com/marin/.

Yeah, she had cancer — three times, and two of those times, she wrestled it to the ground, gave it a noogie and made it cry “uncle.” She also had two heart transplants and a kidney transplant. She spent entire years of her life in hospital rooms, convalescent areas and doctor waiting rooms. She did not complain. Much.

And she loved The Lion King. Like, really loved it. Like, had multiple copies and pretty much every tchotchke that had a Simba on it. (She also loved the word “tchotchke”).

Heather loved her family, and just about everyone became family. She fiercely loved her parents. She adored her brother Phillip, his wife Crystal and their children and grandchildren. (Especially the grandchildren). She loved her in-laws, Kim and Laura Davis, her sisters-in-law, Amy, Sara, Beth, Katherine, Lizzie, Elizabeth’s husband Dustin and their boy, Sterling. She treasured the women who became her sisters, Julie, Lora, Shannon and Tina, their husbands and children.

She loved and missed those who went before her: her grandparents, Horacio and Rose Gonzales and Wesley and Nellie Neal; many aunts and uncles; and her Baby Gordon.

She admired and was grateful to her doctors, nurses and staff at Finley Hospital, the Mayo Clinic (Transplantation at Mayo Clinic), and Gift of Life Transplant House in Rochester, Minnesota.

She tolerated her husband.

In keeping with her wishes, there will be no visitation or services. Those things creeped her out.

One last thing: Heather apologizes for referring to herself in the third person in this obituary.

 

 

Do I have a deal for you…

April 8, 2009 By Lance Venta Leave a Comment

Listen, I’ve got this thing and it’s F-ing golden, see? And I’m not just going to give it up for F-ing nothing. I’m not going to do it.

‘Cause, unless I get something real good, s—, I’ll just send myself, you know what I’m saying?

Oh, wait – you mean I can’t trade a bunch of Chicago and Northwest Indiana IDs from February 2008 for a Senate seat?

Well, can I at least have the full head of hair? No?

(OK, I’d probably settle for a Chicago hot dog, to tell you the truth…)

PS – Confidential to ex-Governor Blago: when you do finally get sent away to Marion, IL, we sure could use some updated IDs from the market for Toppy…and you should have plenty of free time to collect them, right?

Mix of southern IDs

April 5, 2009 By Lou Leave a Comment

Toppy welcomes Macon, GA to the list of cities with at least one legal ID on here. Along with that are a pair of one-off IDs for Tampa and Orlando, along with a pair of IDs out of Selma, AL from Chris Cuomo, one of which is from the recently flipped 107.9 WJAM.

This Editor Is Experiencing Technical Difficulties…

January 9, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

…please stand by.

Nothing says “the holidays are over, let’s get back to normal” like a massive computer failure. Earlier this week, my laptop threw its hard drive — only to find out it wasn’t a hard drive failure as much as it was a combo platter of hard drive and motherboard failure, and this was a problem since I really needed it for work and advance in my games, although for this I get help from services as Elitist Gaming.

Luckily, I had just completed a backup, but it’s one of those backups that’s cut up and spread over multiple DVDs, and it’s too cumbersome a process to restore more than once. So with that in mind, I won’t be posting those Houston IDs I promised tonight, but rather later in the week when I’m back up to full speed. Also big thanks to https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/best-practices/application-development-framework/ for helping me get the site back up to speed.(I’m told the gent from Dell should be here Tuesday to fix my poor ‘puter. )

Thanks for bearing with me.

Go Away! (Until Next Week)

November 25, 2008 By Brian Leave a Comment

Toppy’s taking Thanksgiving week off. Let’s meet back here next week, shall we?

On Contributions

October 10, 2008 By Brian

Before I get to getting on today’s update, I want to take a moment to discuss site contributions.

We were recently taken to task in a site comment on our slow posting time for contributions. I don’t think it was entirely fair, as we’ve made it abundantly clear on both the site itself and the bounce-back e-mail that contributors get that it could be a good while before contributions are published. That said, there is something basically impolite about asking for contributions and then being as far behind on posting them as we are.

I’m of two minds on this: one is to not accept contributions anymore, but that not only hurts the site but reeks of “taking my ball and going home” syndrome. The other is to do what I’m doing as of this evening: closing the site to contributions until we get caught up and then re-thinking the contribution process at that time.

Understand that this is a hobby site. I’ve got two stations to be responsible for. Scott has the eighteen jobs that keep The Museum At Bonnie Brae in hot dogs and diapers. Lou’s got to try not to strangle that freakin’ duck for 40 per, Jeff — well, I don’t really know what Jeff does, but he’s on the road a lot, and Blaine’s got a gig that we simply don’t discuss. *coughc.i.a.cough* My point is this: we all have too much to do for this site to become a drag, and it won’t be. I’ll shut it down first.

Comments are closed on this post. If you have comments or questions, please e-mail me.

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