Terry Mundt wanted to know if I had any information and pix for the Higday and Shipps families that were here only a year in the early 1970s.
I generally don't take request because I have way too much to work on, but this interested me so Terry, Connie (one of my Manning helpers), and I started searching...
We found obits for the Higday family and discovered the mother's maiden name was Swank. Now I haven't been able to determine if she was related to the Swank family in Manning during the 1950s and 1960s so maybe someone out there will know and tell me.
Terry thinks the Shipps dad was Eugene, but we can't find any more information on this family.
There was a Shipp family during the 1940s but it is a different spelling.

None of the children graduated here so I have them recorded with the "former" class lists.
In 2008, I had a wonderful group of volunteers who sat at the large table in the high school office to go through all of the record books to get the list of students and mark down which years they attended school here.
I'm so glad I asked them to do this as having the list of names and the years have helped me beyond the school's history.
It helped me find out how long these 2 families were here in Manning.
Below is an example of one of the sheets my volunteers filled out...the amount and different types of data I have for Manning is endless and I even forget all that I've recorded over the decades.

Arnold Shipps Former 1973
Brenda Shipps Former 1975
Ernest Shipps Former 1977
Margie Shipps Former 1978
Peggy Shipps Former 1981
If anyone has pictures of this family or the Higday family, please let me know.

Robert Higday Former 1977
Brent Higday Former 1981
Marilyn Higday Former 1983
I now have the obits for their parents, Max & Mary Higday which can be found on my obituary page...but here is a very interesting and timely sentence from Mary's obit.
Mary Ellen (Swank) Higday was born July 9, 1936, on one of the hottest days of that decade. It was 117 degrees that day. She was born Southwest of Kellerton, Iowa, in Athens Township in the Salem community at her great-grandparents, Ed and Ida Greenman's home place.


1977 former students list made by my volunteers in 2008.
Higday and Shipps is listed and you can see the year they were here.
In this case the last name is spelled Schipps but the other siblings were spelled Shipps on the other database sheets.

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