Shannon found my web page many years ago and sent me several e-mails.
She sent me a number of pictures to scan and hoped to make a trip to Manning in 2016 to bring me a lot more pictures, but it never worked out for her.
She had some military pictures she was going to bring along.
Hopefully a family member will be able to mail or bring me those pictures someday so I can scan them so they get preserved in my Manning Historical Database.

I don't recall ever meeting her but from her e-mails, I could tell she was a very pleasant person and wished I would have met her at least once.

Mil Horbach let me go through her scrapbook and pictures in 2004. She had some amazing Manning pictures. After she passed away I tried to track down what happened to them, but could never find out. She took those amazing pictures of the mini Jap sub that was captured after the attack on Pearl Harbor and was brought to the Mainland to help raise bonds for World War II.
I had hoped to see if she had other pictures and also re-scan the ones from 2004, but fear they have been thrown away - at least I have some average scans of them.

Here are a few e-mails from Shannon.

At some point in time Shannon found the picture and e-mailed it to me, but it was a copy that was scanned crooked and low resolution.
Hopefully a family member can find the original and send it to me to make a high resolution scan of it.

Virginia Cafe

Nola Kuhl, Anna Hoover, Viola Puck, Bernice "Babe" Koon, Rita Mayberry, Martha Hagedorn, Pearl Kuhl, Bonita Hagedorn

Here are some pictures from Shannon's collection I scanned in 2016.

Bernice Mescher - "daisy drill"

Bernice, Esther, & Mildred 1925 - not sure of order

Bernice Mescher June 2, 1929 Cherokee, Iowa


Bernice & Mildred Mescher (right)


Grandma Mescher with Bernice, Cherokee - circa 1930


Mildred & "Babe" on the farm


Bernice - it appears to be a school & basketball backboard in the background


Janet Horbach, Shannon Goeser, Mil Horbach, Laurie Goeser (Shannon's daughter)
Todd Horbach's wedding in Vegas


Joe Horbach with grandniece, Kathy Goeser September 1958


Kathryn Goeser July 1958 - 3 weeks


Mary, Ruth, Mildred & Bernice Mescher 1923
Not sure who Mary & Ruth are...


Adelaide (Fritz) Mescher - mother of Bernice, Mildred, etc.


Joseph and Adelaide (Fritz) Mescher - parents of Bernice, Mildred, etc.


Mildred & Bernice - Cherokee


Rollie Muhlberg & Gary Koon on right


Tom Koon with his daughter and her children 1991


Shannon & Peter


Shannon & Mildred


Shannon Goeser, Kathy Thomsen, Pete Goeser


Back: Kathy, Pete, Laurie, Shannon
Front: Michele, Terry