Our Father, etc. Hail Mary. etc.

Requiem High Mass for Allen Glenn Rohe, 19, son of Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Rohe of Manning, was celebrated at 10:30 a.m., November 17, 1972, in the Sacred Heart Church in Manning with Fr. Norbert Weber, M.S.C. officiating. Burial was in the Sacred Heart Cemetery. Ohde Funeral Home was in charge.

Casketbearers were Don Rowedder, Marty Kerkhoff, Tom Doyel, Don Rohe, Denny Reischl, and Eugene Irlbeck.

Honorary Casketbearers were Bob Beck, Skip Schrum, Joe Odendahl, Steve Olsen, Russ Ranniger, Greg Schultz, Rick Venteicher, Bob Sturm, Tom Hargens, Ron Hill, Clyde Fielweber, Harvey Dales, Lenus Borkowski, Jim Bluml, Ron Reischl, Curt Struve, and Doug Musfeldt. All are friends of the deceased.

Allen was born January 8, 1953, and was killed in a car accident on Wednesday, November 15, near Harlan, Iowa.

He is a 1971 graduate of Manning High School and is a Sophomore at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs.

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Rohe of Manning; three brothers and four sisters: Duane, Omaha; Larry, Council Bluffs; Mrs. Denny (Jo Ann) Rowedder, Omaha; Linda, Ft. Dodge; Mary Jane, Daryl, and Janet at home; one nephew, Jeff; one grandmother, Mrs. Walter Rohe, Templeton; and one grandfather, Mr. Bernard Halbur of Halbur.

He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Mrs. Bernard Halbur and his grandfather, Walter Rohe.

Many friends and relatives attended the funeral.

Accident Claims Life of A. Rohe, 19
Manning Monitor November 23, 1972
This is the crash scene north of Harlan that took the lives of two young men early last Wednesday morning, November. 15. In dense fog, the driver of the convertible automobile, Allen Rohe, 19, of Manning, was killed instantly as his car collided with a semi-trailer truck (shown jackknifed in the background of this photo) driven by Larry Boyens, 22, of Kiron. According to the county sheriff's office the Boyens truck jackknifed after the impact and stopped crosswise in the road and was rammed into by another semi-trailer truck ripping the trailer nearly in half and coming out on the other side. The driver, Robert L. Rath, 16, of Glidden, was pinned in the tractor's cab for over two hours before rescue crews could free him. He suffered extensive injuries and died a short time later at Myrtue Memorial Hospital in Harlan. Boyens, driver of the first semi and a female passenger were uninjured. Wrecker crews on the scene commented that it was the most devastating accident they had ever seen. Rohe and Rath were the 5th and 6th persons to die on Shelby County highways this year. photos by county sheriff

Two Carroll County men were killed early last Wednesday morning in the crash of a car and two trucks on U.S. 59 one and a half miles north of Harlan.

Dead are Allen G. Rohe, 19, rural Manning, and Robert L. Rath 26, rural Glidden.

Shelby County Sheriff Orrell Gearhart said the accident occurred as the southbound Rohe car collided with a northbound livestock semi-trailer rig driven by Larry Boyens, 22, of Kiron. That truck jackknifed in the highway and was struck by a semi-trailer rig driven by Rath.

Boyens was uninjured.

Rohe was killed instantly in the collision which occurred about 12:30 a.m. Rath died at 3:45 a.m. at the Myrtue Memorial Hospital in Harlan, Gearhart said.

Gearhart also reported the Rath vehicle, which was owned by Sporleder Trucking Company of Glidden and loaded with hogs, hit the trailer portion of the empty livestock trailer. The cab of the Rath vehicle split the livestock trailer and was protruding from the other side of the trailer. Traffic was rerouted for nearly several hours while the wreckage was being cleared. The Sheriff said Rath was pinned in his vehicle for over two hours.

The accident occurred in the dense fog as the Rath truck was taking a load of hogs to Omaha and the Boyens truck was returning from Omaha. Rohe was enroute to Council Bluffs where he was a student at the Iowa Western Community College.

Rath was married to the former Patricia Berning of Breda and was the father of three children, Marty, Terry and Tammy.

Rohe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Rohe of Manning, was born in Carroll and graduated from the Manning High School in 1971. He was studying agriculture at the Council Bluffs school.

Funeral services for Rohe were held at the Sacred Heart Church in Manning at 10:30 a.m. Friday with the Rev. Norbert Weber officiating.

Rohe is survived by his parents, brothers, Duane of Omaha, Larry of Council Bluffs and Daryl of Manning; sisters, Jo Anne (Mrs. Dennis Rowedder) of Omaha, Linda, a student at the Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, Mary Jane and Janet, both of Manning; grandparents, Mrs. Waiter Rohe of Templeton and Bernard Halbur of Halbur.