My cousin, Jon Ahrendsen, recently sent me 2 Carroll County Atlases. He took a few snapshots of family connections for himself and then forwarded them to me to show
me some of the extras in the atlases.
The very first name in the very first snapshot caught my eye right away!
As soon as I saw Accola I remembered his name and that I was looking for proof he served in the military...lo and behold it mentions he served in Europe during WWII.
All I had in my notes is that Albert Claussen remembered that Wayne had served - no other information about him, other than his name that I had in the military database.
Down below I write about my recent scans of things I've saved over the years. Here are a few military related items that I didn't know I had on this specific subject. When I
found stuff years ago I didn't always take a close look at exactly what I had but just knew that they are things that need to be saved.
I had Robert Kerkhoff's name in my WWII list but nothing else...not until going through my boxes of stuff did I realize I had something about him. When I have nothing
about a person or topic, then something is a major find.
Here is a letter Robert sent to Ben & Loretta Sextro and Eddie Sextro is mentioned in the letter, too. This is page 1 of a 3-page letter.
I have 4 short newspaper articles about this next Veteran, and even though it is just an envelope, it shows his handwriting, location, and rank at the time.
All of these little items add to the pieces of the puzzle about a person.
I got side-tracked for a few days when I needed to reorganize some of the "stuff" I've collected/saved over the years.
I decided to scan just a "few" of the items I have...it seems I'm always scanning everyone else's stuff but never get any of my things digitized.
Here are a few items to take you down memory lane.
These first two envelopes had no letters inside but provide names out of Manning's past.
The first name Emmons was once a very prominent family in early Manning history. As soon as I scanned this envelope I sent it to one of the Emmons' descendants from
out west who has been sharing Manning connected history with me. He was tickled to get this small piece of Emmons history.
From Fred Hassler in California to Ernest Sutherland
A ManCryCo (Manning Creamery Company) envelope.
From Ronald Masters, Manning chiropractor
Christmas greetings to the Seyller family
1950s Chamber Fair
Edward Henkenius Voc Ag Teacher 1963
FFA order 1963
1981 Centennial Cancellation - Coast to Coast
1981 Centennial logo - Manning Monitor
Sale of old school gym 1982
Rec Center membership renewal 1987
1982 Agriculture Appreciate Day in Manning
I've scanned lots of country school report cards but was surprised and tickled to run across something I had not scanned and frankly did not know existed.
These 4 cards show the tests my dad had to take/pass to graduate from 8th Grade in country school, so he could then attend high school in Manning.
The right side card was apparently the final testing in May of 1934 where he received his diploma.
If you have things like this - I'd like to get them to scan...that way they'll be preserved in my database.
Some will think "what a waste of time" - but they don't work with the community like I do and get requests for all kinds of topics...like recently where
I was asked about the old Coke Mural that was on the south wall of the Corner Cafe.
Of course I knew there were at least 2 different Coke designs so I can let
groups working on Manning history and restoration know about things they aren't aware of and can then make more informed decisions when they proceed.
The plans are to fully restore the old Coke mural in the near future.
So when I ask you for your old parade, school, community, family pictures to scan, I'll be looking for things like the mural that you wouldn't even consider or realize you have.
2005 view
Did you know the old timers of German ancestry called this building "Eck" which means Corner...
1970s view of the newer Coke Mural
1960s view of the newer Coke Mural
1955 view of the Storz beer Mural
Storz beer Mural was there until at least 1961
1955 view of the Storz beer Mural
1913 view of "Banquet" Beer by Dubuque Brewing & Malting on Buhmann's Place
So again, I put out the plea to every Manning connected person to get me your old Manning stuff so I can scan those things and someday something I scanned in your collection may be requested by another Manning group.
Cleone Schroeder MHS 1953
Frederic Dethlefsen, Elaine Willenborg, Cleone Schroeder
Billy Genzen, Wayne Schroeder, Leo Willenborg, Harold Hill
Cleone Podey, Roger Sinow - 2005 German Heritage Day at Manning Heritage Park
Cleone & Wayne were the children of Herbert & Leona (Grimm) Schroeder
MHS 1953: Vera Ahrenholtz, Marlene Anthony, Glenn Branning, Phyllis Branning, Claus Bunz, Margene Drees, Allan Eich, Mary Lou Foley, Daryl Genzen, Loyce Gray, David Grundmeier, Dorothy Hammer, Marlene Hargens, Marlene Jahn, Wilbur Jahn, William Jensen, Ardella Joens, Donna Joens, Barbara Knaack, Dareld Kracht, Gene Kuhl, Gene Martens, Roland Meeves, David Muhlbauer, Robert Neubaum, Pete Petersen, Lewis Puck, Merlin Ramsey, Patricia Ramsey, Richard Rix, Corrine Sander, Cleone Schroeder, Colleen Schwiesow, Maxine Sextro, Ruth Sextro, Shirley Sextro, Glenn Singsank, Melvin Sinow, Donna Spies, Norbert Stoberl, Betty Stuhr, Merlene Thompson, Allen Vennink, Shirley Vinke, Roger Vollstedt, Shirley Watson, Myra Weinbrandt, James Wingrove, Phyllis Zerwas
Former members: Dean Aden, Janet Asmus, Carol Bliefert, Joseph Bringleson, Jr., Mary Bringleson, Janet Dau, James Davenport, Michael Farmer, Jack Fuller, Howard Gilman, Roger Hansen, Mary Ann Hass, Richard Henriksen, Mary Ann Holme, Donald Lerssen, Caroline Louisfield, Roger Mentzer, Ramon Meyers, Leo Miller, Charlotte Mishler, Patricia Pare, Janice Popp, JoAnn Ramsey, Betty Remmes, James Rostermundt, Darrel Sander, Lois Sander, Everett Slechta, Arlo Stein, Michael Sullivan, Nadine Walters, Jon Wiemann
One of Cleone's passions in life was volunteering for the Hayes Township Schuetzen Verein King & Queen contest at the Five Mile House northwest of Manning.
She helped to promote this Verein until the end...
2005 German Heritage Day in Manning - presenting Heinz and the German American Society of Omaha a Hayes Township Schuetzen Verein 1983 centennial mug.
Heinz Olk
In 2010 Cleone brought me her Grimm scrapbook so I could scan it. I won't show all of the Grimm connections but here are a few pix of of her more direct family members.
Schroeder family
Wayne, Cleone, Marilyn
Wayne, Cleone, Marilyn
Herbert
Leona 1955
Wayne Schroeder MHS 1948
Linda, Susan, Debra
Wayne & Lila (Mohr) Schroeder family
Dale & Marilyn (Schroeder) Jons family
Lucinda & Lyle Podey
Roger Podey
Cleone & Freddie Podey
Visitation: October 30 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM St. Rose of Lima, Denison
Service: October 30 10:30 AM St. Rose of Lima
Cemetery: St. Rose of Lima Cemetery, Denison, Iowa
Norma Charlotte (Roecker) Rowedder, daughter of Frank and Anna (Stoltz) Roecker, was born October 12, 1926, in Crawford County, Iowa. She was baptized into the catholic faith. Norma completed eight years in rural schools and then graduated from Manilla High School in 1944.
On December 27, 1945, she was united in marriage to Ivan Rowedder by Father Casey at the Sacred Heart Parsonage in Manilla, Iowa. They made their homes on various farms in Crawford County and were the parents of four sons. They were members of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Denison. In 1969, they moved to Denison.
Norma retired after working as a quality control employee at World Wide Meats which was later bought by Dubuque Packing Company. She enjoyed dancing, golfing, flowers, gardening, and sewing. She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother.
Norma passed away peacefully on October 26, 2018, at Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison, Iowa. She had attained the age of 92.Preceding her in death are her husband, Ivan; parents; grandson, Chad; brothers, Donald, Norbert, Marvin, and Rolland; sister, Edna; parents-in-law, Herman and Katie Rowedder.
Norma is survived by her sons, Rick Rowedder and his wife JoDene of Granger, Iowa, Denny Rowedder and his wife Ruth of Panora, Iowa, Marc Rowedder and his wife Kristin of Denison, Iowa, and Michael Rowedder of Forsyth, Montana; 5 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; brother, Ken Roecker of Denison, Iowa; and sister, Charla Knapp of Beaver Lake, Nebraska.
I don't have any Roecker pictures since they are more connected to the Manilla area, but I did find them listed in Iowa No. 3 Country School.
Iowa No. 3 country school
Norma's sister-in-law Joyce (Hunter) Roecker - wife of Donald
Katie (Karstens) & Herman Rowedder {parents of Ivan}, with Pastor John Ansorge
Veterans' Day - The End of WWI November 11, 1918
Gene Steffes - goes out of his way to honor Veterans
More pictures coming for the program at school
1918 Homecoming of many of the WWI boys who served out of Manning.
Construction on the high school started in 1917 and the first graduating class in this building was in 1918.
World War I April 6, 1917- November 11, 1918
* denotes killed in action or died while serving
This may look like a jumbled list of names...I could have listed them in single file but then you would have to scroll and scroll to see all of the names.
For several decades I have been pleading, begging, and scheming with ways to get Veterans and their family members to come forward with pictures and information
they have.
The WWI generation is gone and most of their children (WWII generation) are gone...so that leaves me with the grandchildren and great-grandchildren to bother about
military/Veteran pictures they have for their relatives or even of Veterans they don't even realize they have stored away in an old box or scrapbook they inherited from "granny or
grampy."
So I again beg and plead everyone connected to Manning to dig out their old pictures and history and get it to me so I can go through it to find Veteran and old Manning history/pictures.
You may think just your knowledge of a relative being a Veteran is good enough, or that you have those old pix and information in your possession is good enough but what will happen when you are gone - BASED on 40+ years of working on Manning/family history I know what will eventually happen to those things in your possession - they will get either get thrown away or simply deteriorate.
The only way they'll be preserved long-term is to get them to me so I can scan them and add them to the Manning Historical Database.
The really sad thing is that I have more pictures and information for a lot of Civil War, WWI, and WWII Manning connected Veterans than for the Vietnam to present day Veterans
connected to Manning.
It is good on one hand because most of the original pictures and information I gathered and scanned for those early Veterans has probably been thrown away or taken out of town
by someone who inherited those things since I scanned them - never to be seen again here in Manning.
Of course, like with most historical situations, I can show you pictures of people I'm referring to and tell you more background.
early view of the Parker home where Mel & Marge Kusel later lived for decades.
John Parker - one of Manning's Civil War Veterans
Mary (Levan) Parker - wife of John
1964 Charlie Parker - the only Parker I'm old enough to have known.
In case you weren't aware of it, I have been actively working on many Manning historical aspects since I set up my web page in 1996, one of which is the Veteran topic and I set up that military web page in 2001.
Then in 2009, I officially started working on a Manning Veterans' history book project.
I had assumed I would have published it by now but for many reasons it is going to be a much longer project than anticipated - BUT well worth it to do it the right way and
as thoroughly as I can.
For instance, while it is nice to have the obituaries for those Weems boys who served, I don't have much military information for them and no original military photos scanned for Newton, Charley, or Earl.
I also just now found out about the burial site for John Hoffmann. I either forgot if I knew or just missed it while working on all of the Hoffmann stuff I scanned over the years, but
thanks to Jim Stoffers who is connected to one branch of the Hoffmann family, he brought it to my attention that John is buried in Hawaii.
John was killed in a plane accident somewhere between India and China while serving in the Africa Campaign.
We all lose friends and relatives but to have someone in your family get ripped away - killed overseas fighting tyranny is something hard to comprehend. Because of working on Manning Veteran history I understand much better now, while growing up with the kids of the parents and siblings of these great Manning men who sacrificed so much, that even into the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, there was a terrible pain with the parents/siblings...while the kids in these families who were my age probably didn't fully understand either, since they never knew their uncles.
Now is the time to fully honor those Manning Veterans and their families who sacrificed so much, along with all of the other Manning Veterans who served by getting pictures, information, documents, etc to me to scan and use in the Manning Veterans' book.
It would help to speed up the process and for me to get more detailed and thorough information about these Veterans if more family members would come forward and help out.
I saw this item on E-bay and purchased it. It caught my eye from the standpoint of several historical aspects so I felt it needed to be preserved in my Manning Historical Database.
This picture came from another source and identified as Henry & Margretha.
I had this picture already scanned from another collection - Margretha in front.
This picture and the next one I did not previously have so I was glad the owner let me scan them.
You can see
part of Hoffmann Lumber Company in the back left.
Henry is standing, Margretha is seated and the other younger lady is probably one of their daughters.
Lena Sievers, Margretha (Hoffmann) Sievers, Adelia Sievers, Henry Sievers, Sr.
This picture came from another source.
So if you have old pictures of your home (farm or in town) then please let me know so I can scan them.
Remember, I may also have
some old pictures of your home and other information too.
Sharing is the only way to find out.
I often hear these same comments from people who I bug about their Manning family history...
Christine Spall: "When you are younger you just don't think about it, you don't think to ask, and I don't remember anyone of my kids asking: 'what did grandad do in the war?'
"I wish I had asked my parents more now."
It was brought to my attention that this letter from Spall has been posted all over the Internet recently.
While I'm very happy for Christine "discovering" this letter, I didn't realize how unique it would be to so many people online.
For several decades I have been asking people about letters written home by the Veterans in their family...
Below are just a few examples of digital scans I have made over the years.
Now my reason in showing these examples is not for "bragging rights" but to bring to the attention of Manning Veterans and the families of deceased Veterans that I'm looking for letters written home during service so I can scan them and use samples of them in the Veterans' book.
BUT also so these letters will be digitally preserved in my database...that way when the original stuff gets thrown away or deteriorates - they'll still exist digitally in the Manning Historical Preservation Database I'm building.
I realize there will be some "private/personal" information in SOME of the letters but there will certainly be a few letters I can scan that will have information about the service and nothing embarrassing.
Sadly, some wives threw away ALL of the letters their husbands wrote home, because they didn't want the "lovey dovey" parts read by anyone else.
It will sound harsh but this was really shortsighted in destroying ALL the letters that are/were historically important.
So hopefully the children/grandchildren won't hold back all of the letters from allowing me to scan some of them,
because just a few may have personal information about a family member.
So besides the pictures, information, medals, documents, discharge papers, etc. to scan, please bring me some of those letters written home to use in the Manning Veterans' history book.
WWI letter from Gerhardt Lamp in France to Hubert Lamp
February 2, 1945 WWII V-mail from Daryl Mohr to a friend
Daryl was KIA May 13, 1945, on Luzon Island
January 1, 1944 WWII page 2 letter from Heinz Detlefsen to his brother Max
Hinz was KIA November 8, 1944, while flying his Mustang
during a mission over Germany
Letter from Melvin Musfeldt to Ken Jensen's parents during WWII
V-mail from Gerald Schroeder to Ken Jensen WWII
A very unique envelope that a V-mail message was written on - from Wilmer Ranniger to his parents WWII
V-mail message from Wilmer Ranniger to his parents WWII
WWII letter from Amos Rutz to his brother
1955 letter from Ray Christensen to his wife
I hope by showing some samples of letters written home during military service will encourage more Manning Veterans and their families to dig out and bring me their military historical items to scan...
Between Jim Stoffers and Lois Peters and her daughter, we have come up with a few more names and confirmations for several pictures.
Besides Jahn, Wunder (with Sievers & Lemster connections) is another name we came up with.
I did take pictures of the last major flood we had during a fall harvest...we've had some falls since then where the
Nishnabotna was brim full or went out of its banks in a few low spots but nothing like 1974.
Then the next spring we had the worst flooding since the late 1940s and early 1950s - flooding, only exceeded by the 1990 and 1993 floods.
Here are some pictures, but I'm still trying to pin down the year that we got stuck everywhere in the fields in the fall - again I think 1972.
Then nature turned to the other extreme
During the summer of 1975, a three-year drought began and by the summer of 1977 the Nishnabotna Creek quit running for
several weeks.
Nishnabotna May 27, 2013 minor flood.
Another one of my loyal historical helpers, Bill Jentzen, recently brought me several old Manning connected pictures to scan.
I was especially happy to get these 2 pictures which show a lot of Manning connected people.
We need more help...there are a few of these students still living so hopefully they'll come forward, or their kids will show it to their mom/dad to get names.
Eventually, I'll have to start comparing pictures I have from this era to see if I can find something in my database that will confirm more names.
So far only Donn Kelsey has helped with the IDs.
Either very few Manning people visit my web pages, or they aren't interested in e-mailing me the names of their parents/grandparents.
I simply don't accept that most children can't identify their parents or grandparents in a picture like this.
I took a copy of the picture to Gene Wiese today at the Manilla Manor, but I need to increase the size of the students some more and will return later this week to work with him on the names of some of his classmates.
I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've seen the picture of a person put on a large 7 inch convex metal button which had a wire picture stand on back - similiar to the metal pin-on buttons you wear on a shirt or coat.
This is the what the button looks like before being digitally restored.
All the way from "down under" in New Zealand.
Last year Jon Asmus sent me his dad, Merlin "Buddy" Asmus' pictures from New Zealand so I could scan them.
I hope the Vollmer, Musfeldt, Asmus, and other families connected to Buddy (including the Nixon family in New Zealand) will take the time to go through all of the links
and send me e-mails with IDs and locations for the various pictures.
I'm sure Jon will be grateful for your help - since he was born and raised in New Zealand and doesn't know much about Manning and his Manning relatives and
would not be able to recognize many of the locations of the pictures and also the people in the pictures.
There are also pictures of non-Asmus family connected individuals and events in Manning - so anyone in their 70s & 80s might be able to help with IDs and locations too, so please take some time to browse through the various links and then please e-mail me with your information - even if some are guesses.
Then the Schroeder descendant remembered that my mother was an Ehrichs, and then started to connect the Ehrichs/Schroeder families, but not until he mentioned Norfolk, Nebraska, did it hit me that I might have more pictures about this Ehrichs/Schroeder family.
So I went to my family history folder to search for the Schroeder name and the pictures that my Ehrichs relative had sent me to scan a number of years ago.
I was surprised and tickled pink when I found a picture of a home that was in the Linde Ehrichs' collection from Norfolk, that was identified as
"John & Wiebke Schroeder home in Manning."
Now there was no address or description of where it was in Manning, just that this Schroeder family lived there.
To find out more about this Schroeder family and help being requested, click on "The Manning Exchange" link on the left and then go to the "Schroeder" thread to read the information.
The initial reason I showed the wider view picture was to show part of the old Germania Hall that was built in 1884...by the Manning Schuetzen Verein.
The Manning Verein was incorporated on April 11, 1879, under the laws of Iowa.
While Childrens Day has been officially using 1883 as the first year, I have information that shows it began in 1882 and one could consider it actually starting in 1881, but
it wasn't described as much as a German event.
So to recap - if the Schroeder descendant would not have contacted me and provided the initial clue about the house, he currently wouldn't know for sure that it was the Schroeder
house and also not have the close-up picture of that house with Hinrich & Wiebke in front.
I also provided him some digital family pictures that he either didn't have or only had
a facsimile copy.
BUT he made it possible for me to now know where the picture of the Schroeder house was taken.
He helped me, I helped him
Now why don't you take a chance and contact me to see what we can work together on and share.
You aren't going to find anyone else with the type of database I have for the Manning area.
I also want to brag about these aspects.
My web pages are free and available to anyone who is interested in Manning area history.
I don't have any advertising such as "Google ads" that track you and I don't have those annoying pop-up ads.
You don't need a login and password to view my information.
I don't charge you for my information.
If you share your genealogy/history on the so-called social media sites or the commercial ancestry sites, you are restricting the number of older people who might be able to help you.
A lot of the older generation people aren't inclined to join the social sites or pay commercial sites "For the privilege" to post their own personal family history they worked on, only to
make some company rich with their information.
For those sites that you think are free - most of them are gathering all kinds of information about you, track you, force ads in your face and then other websites that use, for instance, Google ads, will look into your browser cookie history to see what sites you've been to and purchased things.
I make absolutely NO money off Manning history - to the contrary it has cost me tens of thousands of dollars to accomplish what I have in my database.
My work is completely volunteer.
More importantly, my work is strictly about the Manning area history. I don't go into the history of nearby towns, other than Aspinwall, and rarely other nearby towns - only when they
have some Manning connections.
I don't go into the general 4 county history that Manning is connected to, nor into Iowa history in general.
If you find an error or I find an error, I make the corrections when I find out and make sure the Manning database is updated.
Those other sites are more comparable to "Garbage in, Garbage out."
My only requirement is if you ask me for information and pictures, that you in turn share back.
Twin Gables was mentioned in this feature...Never heard of it? Here are several pictures I have gathered from numerous individuals over the years.
AGAIN the reason I have these pictures is because other people shared with me.
If you have old Manning history and information and like to come
to my web pages and grab the pictures and information but won't give me the time of day - what you don't realize is I probably could help you
more with your family history but you won't know until you contact me.
Even if I can't immediately help you, the pictures and information you could share with me and then I would in turn share on my web pages might inspire someone
else you are related to to share what they have with me and then I would feature their history on my web pages...which would then help you - Hard to follow what I just said???
What I show here on my webpages doesn't scratch the surface of what I have in the Manning Historical Preservation Database.
September 1, 1937, newly constructed.
1942 Loyd Borkowski, home on leave
Notice the Schuetzen Verein in the back right (AKA Manning Firemens Hall)
This was the same location that Germania Hall once stood before it burned down in 1925.
Viola (Henkelman) and Wayne Ranniger
If you follow the link below to Homecomings of the past, you'll see pictures from as far back as 70 years ago.
While I have been collecting/scanning school pictures for over 40 years, the bulk of Manning school stuff was acquired when I worked on the Manning Schools
History book project from 2006 - 2009, after finishing the Manning Quasqui history book.
At that time, very few alumni came forward with their scrapbooks and pictures, but even with a lack of over-all support from the thousands of alumni, I have a tremendous
database started because of a FEW members who brought me their scrapbooks and boxes of pictures to scan.
One of hundreds of goals about Manning history that I'll never be able to fully complete is to get individual graduation pictures of each Manning student.
Someday I envision having a "wall of graduates"
in a future museum.
The ONLY way this can happen is if many more Manning connected people and alumni come forward with their old pictures, so I can scan them.
Here is the oldest Manning graduation picture I have come across - so far.
So please contact/e-mail me about your old scrapbooks and boxes of pictures that you probably haven't looked at since you graduated - AND someday your children/grandchildren/great-grandchildren will throw away.
Raising the US Flag on Iwo Jima February 23, 1945
The "First Man" 2018 movie leaves out the historical event of Armstrong and Aldrin raising the US flag.
I read from several sources that it took 400,000 workers and $24 Billion for the US to achieve the first moon landing.
I'm surprised the title of the movie isn't "First Person."
Of course if you believe some people, even today, the Moon landing was faked!
I suppose a future movie remake about the "Battle of Iwo Jima" will exclude the US flag being raised by Americans.
Update on the Hillside Splash project
On May 15, 2018, the city council approved $400,000 in matching funds for the proposed Hillside Splash project.
JEO Consulting has been working on design ideas and a proposal to complete this project in 3 phases.
Phase 1 will begin in 2019-20 with construction beginning in 2020-21, or as soon as funds are raised.
A zero-depth pool with some play features are planned in phase 1, with the slide aspects in phase 2, and a spray pad for phase 3.
Click on the link below to see some very interesting history on how Manning achieves so many amazing things and is now working on another unique project.
Oh the Fun of playing in the Sun (1968)
1909 cartoon about 2 boys nabbing their friends' clothes while "skinny dippin.'"
An observation I made during Orland's funeral was the lack of attendance by business people and Manning citizens in general. I realize many of
them paid their respects at the viewing the day before and the church is relatively small but having attended funerals for 50+ years and knowing Manning history...society has
changed a lot - it was quite common when a businessman passed away years ago that the businesses on Main Street closed down during the funeral and most of the owners
attended the funeral.
Here are just two examples.
Ulysses L. Patton
July 30, 1908
ONE OF OUR OLDEST PIONEER CITIZENS PASSES AWAY LAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Was a Member of the City Council for Fifteen Years and on School Board for Nine Years.
Mr. Patton has been in the stock business in Manning for a number of years and
was associated in the business with his son, Dwight, at the time of his death.
As a token of the esteem in which Mr. Patton is held by the business men here
every place of business in the city was closed from 10 to 12 o'clock, during
the time of his funeral and all public work was suspended the entire day.
John Frahm, Prominent Business Man Died Tuesday
Entered Into Rest May 28, 1940 At Home Manning
The spacious funeral home and every,
available place around the premises was occupied by friends during the
services. Every business place in town was closed in his respect during the services.
The deceased leaves many memories and some heritages which will endure through
Manning's history. He was one of the towns leading citizens; a man of pleasing
personality; jovial; kind and honorable. He was a good friend to have and he
had a host of friends. The Chamber of Commerce, Manning, 3-Mile House and
5-Mile House Schuetzen Verein, of which he was a member,
and other organizations always found him a willing worker and liberal giver.
The town and community will feel his departure in losing a faithful helper and
progressive citizen. He was a faithful husband and a kind and loving father in
his home and gave himself unselfishly for the comforts and good of his family.
Another reason why more citizens should have attended the funeral was to honor and show respect to Orland for his military service...a Veteran of the Korean War.
Now these comments are solely my own and not intended to judge/criticize anyone but just as an observation of change over the years.
Visitation Wednesday April 25, 2018 , 3:30 PM - 7:00 PM at Ohde Funeral Home, Manning
Funeral Service Thursday April 26, 2018, 10:30 AM at First Presbyterian Church, Manning
Visitation resumes at church at 9:30 AM.
Interment with Military Honors will follow the funeral at the Manning Cemetery
More information and pictures coming...
Korean War Veterans continues
For those of you who are occasional visitors to the Manning Exchange - please make sure to click on the "archived articles" section where previous featured stories are kept.
We would like to hear from you, the "1983 Leaders of Tomorrow" who have relatives and chums in your hometown of Manning, Iowa.
Who grew up on a farm south of Manning, has chased tornados, and is now a meteorologist for the National Weather Service?
Click to see the answer in his own words
Note: Your story does not have to be as thorough as found at the link above but at least send us a couple paragraphs to bring us up to date from 1983. Here is the DIRECT link to the 1983 web page.
Parents of the "1983" kids - please encourage your children to send in their updated information and any pix they may want to include.
Sometimes a little nudge by mom or dad will get the ball rolling!
Each 1983 "Leader of Tomorrow" has interesting family history.
Here are the names of the "1983 kids" who we are looking for an update from...
Aaron & Courtney Potthoff, Adam Croghan, Andrew & Amanda & Brandon Puck, Alex & Abbey Ranniger, Allison & Megan Keese, Angela & Heather & Michele Hass, Angie & Alan Irlbeck, Bradley Christensen, Bryan & Nathan Rohe,
Chelsea Souter, Christin Ann Fara, Christopher Wegner, Cole & Ty Henderson, Dale & Vanessa & Derek Hargens, Daniel Wayne Tibben, Daniel & Janelle Stribe, Dawn & Derrick Rohe, Dawn & Michelle Willenborg,
Elizabeth & Jamy Zinke, Ericka & Andrea Ehlers, Gary & Beth & Tim Ferneding, Heather & Jessica & Jimmy Switzer, Jackelyn McKeighan, Jamie Jo Irlbeck, Jeffrey & Joey & Jeremy Irlbeck, Jeffry & Kelli & Jason Lorenzen,
Jeremia Rex Macumber, Jennifer & Jason & Renee Knueven, Jennifer & Jeremy Misselhorn, Jeremy Puck, Jessica Rasmussen, Jill Kienast, Joe Stein, Joseph & Mackenzie Hinners,
Kasie & Andrea & Amy Lorenzen, Kenzie Kae Kerkhoff, Lauren & Shad Bauer, Marte Wanninger, Matthew & Mandi Weitl, Melissa & Angie Pfannkuch, Michael & Amy & Jeremy Kasperbauer, Michael & Michaela Hargens,
Melissa & Michaela Vinke, Michael & Matthew Siepker, Michaela & Crystal Ehlers, Natasha Vonnahme, Ryan & Rachel Pfannkuch, Sabrina Lee, Sarah Kaszinski, Sheri & Trena Bell, Tara Zeman,
Stephen & Ryan & Darren Andersen, Tonya Jo Wurr, Tiffany & Michelle Jahn, Tim & Matt Hugeback, Brian & Katie & Steph Beck, Troy & Robin Wanninger
If you send me some information about yourself, I may also be able to find some pictures of your parents, grandparents, family members that I have in my database (as shown above).
We can use them in your story along with your "1983" picture.
What ever became of the
1983 "Leaders of Tomorrow"
Have some of your "Dreams" come true?
"Let it be known that he who wears the military order of the purple heart has given of his blood in the defense of his homeland and
shall forever be revered by his fellow countrymen."
George Washington, August 7, 1782
Just as a reminder: the Manning History book committee continues to work on a Manning area Veterans' history book
project.
For those of you who are Veterans or have/had Veterans in your family - will you come forward?
The history book committee will do their best to get as many pictures and information about the 1000+ Manning Veterans
but we can't do it all by ourselves.
How many small communities do you know have published 5 history books? The first one was the History of Manning 1898, then the 1981 Manning Centennial book, next the 2006 Manning Quasqui book, and most recently the 2009 Manning School history book. Probably the last book to be published will be the upcoming Manning Veterans' book - unless someone comes forward in the next generation to take over these projects after I'm gone. Will you help with the Veterans' history book project? If you are a Manning connected Veteran or are presently serving and do not submit your military connected pictures and infomation you probably won't be in this once-in-a-life-time Manning Veterans' history book. With a limited number of volunteers we can only do so much on our own but will try to get pictures of as many Veterans as we can. There are over 1000 Manning Veterans so we have a long ways to go before the book can be published.
Manning Veterans are slowly coming forward and below is another example. We hope to eventually get more pictures and information for Mike to put in the book but for now this is what I have to show to you.
One thing that many Veterans and people who are submitting information have not fully understood is that this next
Manning history book is specifically a Veterans' only book. It won't be like the Centennial or Quasqui history books were,
where there is a Veterans' section along with other community aspects. We are aiming for a 2-volume book (around 1090 total pages) which will really be unique!!!
This book will be ALL Veterans' information (and the post auxiliaries) - hence it
won't be a "Name, Rank, and Serial Number" only history but we want a complete history for each Veteran.
For instance - below is Louis Boell's picture and the information
that was published in the Veteran section of the 1982 Aspinwall Centennial history book. It has the basic
information but we are looking for more and I spoke to Louie by phone and he sent more pictures
and information - also for his brothers.
To see what Louis submitted click on the link underneath "Are you a Manning Veteran" shown below.
Note: we also want some family background such as parents and grandparents. All too often you will only see just the Veteran's name with their basic military information but without the family connections it will be difficult for future historians and genealogists to know for sure who this person belongs to.
Please e-mail me about your Veteran questions manningveterans@davidkusel.com
1 Manning citizen served in the War of 1812
48 served in the Civil War
1 served in the Indian War
3 served in the Spanish American War
300+ served during WWI
550+ served during WWII
87+ served in the Korean war era
65+ (more names need to be found) served in the Vietnam era
55+ (many more names need to be found) served from 1975 to present
26 paid the ultimate price with their lives defending the U.S. Flag
We are starting the Manning Veterans' history book project
Don't wait until you see "Deadline" or it WILL be too late!!!
Click to read promos for the Veteran book
If you simply don't want those old family pictures you inherited please don't throw them - send them my way.
A lot of times I can recognize a face or location in those old pix.
One thing to keep in mind while you are looking for pictures - if they are glued in old scrap books please do NOT try to pull them out or cut them out. I can scan the whole page of the scrapbook and crop out the pictures you want to use in the book. If you attempt to forcibly remove the pictures you will probably damage them and when I scan them that damage will probably show up. This means I'll either have to use my graphics program to touch up the damage which can take a lot of time, or if they are badly damaged I just may not even take the time to scan them.
