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MILFORD -- Marjorie Topitzer went above and beyond the call of duty for others. "When I was 25, I was living in an apartment and Christmas was coming," said a daughter, Kathy Attruia of Milford. "We had an aunt, uncle and several cousins coming up from Florida, and my mother asked my sister (Carol Topitzer of Milford) and me to sleep over, so the whole family could wake up together on Christmas morning. We agreed, and on Christmas Eve, my mother handed out our room assignments and we all went off to get settled. Later, I went into the kitchen and found my mom setting up a cot for herself, and she had sent my dad to a sofa bed in the basement. She said she wanted to sleep in the kitchen so she could stuff the stockings and finish wrapping some presents. I offered to swap places with her, but she wouldn't hear of it and sent me off to bed.
"The next day at dinner, I said to my mom, if she had been around when Mary and Joseph were looking for a place to have their baby, that story would have been different. She wouldn't have told them there was no room at the inn; instead, she'd have said, 'I'll go sleep in the manger with my husband.' She laughed when I told her this, and kept a copy of my comments, which I later typed up for her, in her lockbox right up to her death."See the full content of this document
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Milford Woman Welcomed Everyone Into Her Home?
Topitzer died May 17 at age 79.
Born April 3, 1930, in Bridgeport, a daughter of James and Micheline Nechol...See the full content of this document
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