Emanuel M. Funk, 75, business manager of the Rogers, Arkansas, Democrat for nearly 30 years, died January 29, 1927 at his home in Rogers. Nearly a year previous to his death, he became a sufferer from leakage of the heart and for several months he was confined to his home. However, he had enjoyed better health the past few months and just a few days before his death he had attended to business and had planned to hold court, as justice of the peace, the morning that he died.

Mr. Funk was born near Mount Morris, Illinois, to parents who were Dunkards in religion. While still a little boy, he moved to Iowa with his parents.

After several years in the mercantile business in Deep River, Mr. Funk moved to Audubon, in western Iowa, in 1879; a few years later he moved to Manning, and engaged in the clothing business. He was postmaster at Manning under Cleveland's first administration; in 1888 was elected clerk of the courts of Carroll County and the family moved to Carroll, the county seat, but returned to Manning in 1894, where he bought the Manning Monitor, and also engaged in the practice of law and was city attorney. He was admitted to the practice of law in the Supreme Court of Iowa in 1891. The firm name of the newspaper was Funk & Funk, and the father was business manager and the son, editor, a combination and partnership which lasted 25 years.

March 27, 1896, Manning Monitor

May 1, 1896, Manning Monitor