Dr. Toops was a Professor of Russian Languages at Wichita State University in Wichita, Ks.. He was born March 30, 1954 the first born of Howard Parsons Toops and Emma Portner Toops in Fr. Eustis, VA. He was a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada and earned his PhD in Russian and Slavic Literature from Yale in 1985. He received his formal training in Russian at the Leningrad (i.e. St. Petersburg) Moscow and Petrozavodsk State Universities. He had been teaching at Wichita State University since 1989. Gary was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Connie Toops-Walker on August 11, 2013. Survived by: siblings, Daniella Toops-Jones of Hamilton, IL, Tony William Toops of Wayland, MO and Ronald Warren Toops of Newport News, VA..
Dr. Toops was a Professor of Russian Languages at Wichita State University in Wichita, Ks.. He was born March 30, 1954 the first born of Howard Parsons Toops and Emma Portner Toops in Fr. Eustis, VA. He was a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada and earned his PhD in Russian and Slavic Literature from Yale in 1985. He received his formal training in Russian at the Leningrad (i.e. St. Petersburg) Moscow and Petrozavodsk State Universities. He had been teaching at Wichita State University since 1989. Gary was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Connie Toops-Walker on August 11, 2013. Survived by: siblings, Daniella Toops-Jones of Hamilton, IL, Tony William Toops of Wayland, MO and Ronald Warren Toops of Newport News, VA..
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