Graveside services for F.J. McMahon will be held Saturday, June 22, 1985, at 11:00 a.m. at the Manning City Cemetery. Reverend Carl Sinning will be conducting the service.

Francis J. "Bud" McMahon
F.J. "Bud" McMahon was born in Elk Horn, Iowa, on November 26, 1900. His parents were James and Sarah (Noon) McMahon. He attended school at Harlan and Irwin, and he graduated from Iowa State College in 1923. In the same year on August 30, he married Elsie Paulsen of Irwin.

After serving as Superintendent of Schools at Barnes City, Mapleton, and Ocheyedan, he started a feed and seed store in Manning in 1933. He operated this business for thirty years and served on the School Board and Light Board. He was active in the Democratic Party and ran for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture in 1948. Later he was honored by the State Department of Public Instruction for his contribution to Vocational-Agricultural Education in Iowa as one of the pioneers in this field.

In 1971, Bud and Elsie moved to rural Independence to be near their daughter, Mary, and her husband, Bill, and grandchildren Karl, George, John, and Sarah.

Bud passed away in 1983, and Elsie died on December 27, 1974.

They were preceded in death by a son, John Robert, who died in 1941 at the age of eight.