In Loving Memory of WILLIAM H. MAHNKE
Services Zion Lutheran Church Denison, Iowa
10:30 - Saturday, July 18, 1992
Officiant Pastor Kurt Kaiser
Organist Karen Kahl
Soloist Henry Henningsen
Solo Selections On Eagles Wings
Congregational Hymns "How Great Thou Art" - Insert "Amazing Grace" - Insert "I Know that My Redeemer Lives" TLH 200
Honorary Pallbearers Raymond & Margaret Miller Allan & Donna Childress, Fred & Charlene Stokey, Gilmore & Marian Joens, Walter & Myrna Voege, Dennis & Bonita Hjerpe, Joe & Shirley Dimmitt, Merlin & Joy Umland, Leo & Irene Ertz, Johanna Scheiwe, Shires Jensen, Al Pinske, Lois Hill
Pallbearers Bradley Mahnke, Steven DeVoll, James DeVoll, Todd Jensen, Mark DeVoll, Gary Enke
Interment Manning Cemetery
Manning Cemetery Manning, Iowa
The family invites everyone to return to the church and join them in fellowship and lunch served by the Dorcas Society
Walter A. Huebner and Sons' Funeral Service
William H. Mahnke was born December 1, 1918, the son of Herman and Laura (Voege) Mahnke. He died Wednesday, July 15, 1992, at St. Josephs Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 73 years.
William was born on a farm near Manning, Iowa, and was blessed with his salvation in Christ through Holy Baptism on September 14, 1919. He received his formal education in a rural school near his home and was confirmed in the Lutheran faith at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning on March 25, 1934.
After completing his education, William began his farming career on the family farm. He was united in marriage to Luella Anton on August 26, 1937, at the Zion Lutheran Parsonage in Manning by Reverend Ansorge. The couple were blessed with the birth of three children and settled on a farm south of Westside where they remained for four years. In 1941, the family moved to the Mahnke farm where they lived until 1964 before retiring from farming and moved to Denison. He was then employed by Crawford County Maintenance Department for more than nineteen years and retired in 1984.
William was a devoted, considerate and kind husband and father who was a hard working and genuinely honest man who enjoyed fishing and socializing in a game of cards and dancing. His Christian character was evident in his memberships: in the Zion Lutheran Church in Denison, Zion Men's Club, and their Fellowship Club.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one daughter, Beverly Lou, at the age of two years; and three brothers, Raymond in 1968, Alfred in 1983 and Leonard in 1990.
Survivors include his wife, Luella of Denison; one daughter, Shannon DeVoll and her husband, Charles of Edgerton, Wisconsin; one son, Reverend Ronald W. Mahnke and his wife, Barbara, of Minot, North Dakota; eight grandchildren: Beverly Enke, Steven DeVoll, James DeVoll, Lisa DeVoll, Laura Fox, Dara Mahnke, Brad Mahnke, and Mark DeVoll; four great-grandchildren: Michelle and Alicia Fox, Jennah DeVoll and Morgan Bridgedt DeVoll Uhe. Other survivors include one brother, Herbert and his wife, Inez, of Manning; two sisters-in-law, Anna Mahnke of Albert City and Hilda Mahnke of Denison; and several nieces and nephews.