Funeral Service SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010, 2:00 PM
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MANNING, IOWA
REVEREND MARSHALL BROWN, OFFICIATING
Music "HERE I AM, LORD" "Now PRAISE THE LORD" CONGREGATION
"I'LL WALK WITH GOD" CHOIR "How GREAT THOU ART" DEETTE GRABILL, VOCALIST
"STEAL AWAY" "I BELIEVE" "THE LORD'S PRAYER" "I SAW THE LIGHT" MANNING LIEDERKRANTZ
Casket Bearers: DUANE MONSON, JOHN DETLEFSEN, TOM ULRICKSON, HARVEY DALES, ROBERT GAFFNEY, DAVID KUSEL
Honorary Casketbearers: SUSAN ULRICKSON, RITA ZERWAS, William F. OHDE, MAX DETHLEFSEN, CLIFFORD TANK
Interment MANNING CEMETERY, MANNING, IOWA

Art's family wishes to thank you for your many kindnesses over the years and invites you to join them for refreshments at church following the service.

Arthur Julius Rix was born December 11, 1908, in Manning, Iowa, the fourth son of Peter N. and Wilhelmina (Baak) Rix. He passed away at the Manning Regional Healthcare Center January 3, 2010 at the age of 101 years and 22 days. Art had been a resident of the Manning Plaza since May 2003.

Art attended Manning schools and graduated in 1926. He attended the University of Iowa for two years and then joined his father and brother, Ted, in publishing the Manning Monitor. In 1948 he purchased an interest in the Lewis Reinhold drug store. In 1972 he sold his interest to his partner Orval Fink. Art then leased the wallpaper and paint department which he operated in the remodeled basement of the drug store. He retired in 1978 after fifty years as a businessman on Main Street.

On October 14, 1932 Art was united in marriage with Ila Claussen. The couple had been classmates since childhood and they were married for seventy-three years.

Art was very active in the Manning community. He was the last surviving charter member of the Manning Manilla Golf Course, having been president for one term. He was also involved with the development of the Senior Citizen Center, the expansion of the hospital and building the Plaza. He also was a member of the Terrace Apartments housing board and a past president of the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club. Art was a fifty-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star and Masonic Lodge as well as a former member of ZaGaZig Shrine in Des Moines. As a member of First Presbyterian Church, he was an Elder and sang in the choir for seventy years.

Of special interest to Art was his participation in Der Manning Liederkranz, a German Men's singing group. In 1979 he helped re-establish a new Liederkranz to honor the original 1891 chorus. This new group performed during the Manning Centennial in 1981 and throughout the following twenty-five years. Art served as president until the group disbanded in 2007. Art's father Peter Rix was a member of the original Liederkranz and its president in 1896.

Art's hobbies were photography, reading, music, the Chicago Cubs and the Iowa Hawkeyes. During high school he played clarinet in a touring dance band and while at the U of I, was a member of the marching and concert bands.

As a life-long resident of Manning, Art experienced the town's 50th, 100th, and 125th celebrations and served as editor of the 1981 Manning Centennial history book and was the Grand Marshall for the Quasquicentennial parade in 2008. At the time of his death, Art was a member of the Manning Main Street Redevelopment committee and on the Plaza resident council.

Art is preceded in death by his parents; three brothers Alfred, Harry and Ted Rix; and his wife Ila.

He is survived by his daughters Diane Weitz (Edwin) of Omaha, NE and Karen Snyder (Errol) of Wheat Ridge, CO; four grandchildren: Libby Snipes (Ricky) of Council Bluffs; E. Carter Weitz, Jr. (Tami) of Lincoln, NE; Kristin Nelson of Arvada, CO and Marc Nelson Rix (Jennifer) of San Diego, CA; 17 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; sister-in-law Marmee Claussen of Iowa City; cousin Adele Stoffers of Venice, FL; nieces, nephews and many friends.

Memorial contributions may be made to the West Central Iowa Healthcare Foundation or First Presbyterian Church, Manning.

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God...
...if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:7,12