In Loving Memory HARRY PLOEN

Service MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2002, 10:30 AM OHDE FUNERAL HOME, MANNING, IOWA
Officiating PASTOR DANIEL VOGEL ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH, MANNING, IOWA
Music “AMAZING GRACE” “THE LORD’S PRAYER” HELEN OHDE, VOCALIST CONNIE SIEPKER, ORGANIST
Interment with Military Honors MANNING CEMETERY
AMERICAN LEGION EMIL EWOLDT POST 22
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3517
Casketbearers: RAY CHRISTENSEN, ED OHL, ED REISCHL, RAY IRLBECK, KEN JENSEN, BOB WEGNER

THE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE FOR YOUR KINDNESS EVIDENCED IN THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED AND INVITES TO YOU SHARE IN FELLOWSHIP AND LUNCH AT THE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOLLOWING THE COMMITTAL SERVICE.

Harry John, son of Peter C. and Lena (Moeller) Ploen, was born June 3, 1911, on a farm near Aspinwall, Iowa. As a young boy he moved with his family into Manning where they lived with his grandmother for a short time. When he was five years old they moved to their own home on First Street. He attended school in Manning and graduated with the Class of 1929. As a young man Harry did carpentry work, helping build the Ohde Funeral Home. Because of his work on that building William Ohde, Sr. asked Harry to work for the Ohde Funeral Home and Furniture Store, which he did in 1933.

Harry enlisted in the United States Army in October of 1942. After attending radio school for six months, he started active duty as a teletype serviceman in the Signal Corps. He served in the Southwest Pacific including many of the islands and was part of the invasion and taking over of Luzon in the Philippines. After the peace treaty he spent some time in Japan before returning to the homeland and receiving his honorable discharge in March of 1946.

After returning to Manning, Harry continued to work for Ohde’s until late 1948 when he started with the Manning Municipal Light Utility. Seven years later he started working at the Manning Municipal Water and Waste Water Plant, retiring in 1976.

Harry and his brother Herman remained in the family home on First Street until 1988 when they planned to move to their new home in South Manning. His brother died before the move, so Harry moved there by himself.

Harry was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Manning. He was a life member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans. He was also a member of the Hayes Township Schuetzen-Verein, where he was crowned King in 1979.

Due to failing health, Harry moved to the Manning Plaza Nursing home in 1995 where he died on Friday evening, December 13, 2002, at the age of 91 years, 6 months and 10 days.

Preceding him in death are his parents and brother.

Cousins, other relatives and friends survive Harry.