How do you like it when those commercial genealogy, grave, and historical websites make money off of your work and family history/treasures?
I've been online longer than most of them and have NEVER made ONE PENNY off any of the history I've work on over the last 50 years - to the contrary, all of this preservation has cost me tens of thousands of dollars!
My goal is to preserve all Manning and the Manning area history - which is so precious and very special (especially to me) and I have never once thought about making money off of other family's and individual's pictures and history.

So why not JOIN my astronomical endeavors and rather than give those other websites your pictures and history so they can make money off of it (and you) - let me digitize it and archive it in the Manning Historical Preservation database and even post some of it on my website.

Now I haven't done this all by myself...I've had hundreds of volunteers help me with the history books we've published and sourcing of Manning information, and the endless supply of pictures and information that hundreds more individuals with Manning connections have sent/brought to me to scan and archive and post on my web pages.
The reason why I have the immense database I do is because OTHERS shared with me and we worked together. I learned my lesson years ago about sharing history - it HAS to be a two-way street.
If I share and they don't share back then I would have never been able to build this amazing and ever-growing database I have now...so today when someone asks me for pictures and history, I first expect them to start sharing with me, otherwise most of them will come, take, and then I never hear from them again.

If you come here and take information and then don't contact me and share what you have you are only hurting your own research.
The reason why I have some of the obituaries and information on my web pages is because others shared.
So if you don't share what you have then I won't be able to add to my database which might catch another relative's eye - so you are only hurting your future prospects at getting more information.
Think about it!!!

Also, the obituaries on my web pages are my work and NOT to be copied and posted on other websites, especially the commercial ones which make money - you and they can spend your own time/money to do the research and editing/proof reading.


If you find an error, incorrect date, or misspelled name OR you can fill in information that is missing in many of these old obituaries such as maiden or first names please E-mail Dave Kusel

I cross reference the obituaries with the city of Manning Cemetery records and the Carroll genealogical booklet and find many discrepancies between all of the sources.
Some errors can be from the OCR scanner software.

Recently Added

July 14, 2025 August Grau
Orrie Wilson
William Nulle
Henry Paulsen
Mary Loeptien
July 10, 2025 Arla Hansohn
Kathryn Schwartz
Verna Hostetter
Fred Hostetter
Ralph Ewoldt
July 8, 2025 Mary VanDusen
William Wulf
Rose (Wulf) Stuhr
Clara Paape
Dorothy Weidenfeller
Wilhelmina Dammann
Anna (Kelting) Dammann
Lena Bartels
Christian Bartels
Lorenz Kelting
Esther Kelting
July 7, 2025 Herbert Hoover
Arthur Foster
Helen Longtin
Bernice Crotty
Annie Aldrich
Floyd Aldrich
July 6, 2025 Albert Umland
Emma Umland
Anna (Rostermund) Joens
Bernhardt Joens
Minnie Lohmeier
Jean Kuhn
Katrina Roggish
Edward Roggish
July 4, 2025 Maude Lybarger
Mary Signall
Arthur Signall
Paul Signall
Edna Signall
June 27, 2025 Karla Hamann
Hans Beese
Alice Kellogg
Oscar Atkins, Sr.
Friedrich Hoogestraat
Dorothea Hoogestraat
Anning Meyer
Herman C. Meyer
Patricia Paysen
June 26, 2025 Erwin Reilly
Magnus Wellendorf
Ruth Walde
Leonard Walde
Claus & Antje Thomssen
Russell Atkins
Ella Friedrichsen
Anna Friedrichsen
Henry Friedrichsen 1974
June 18, 2025 Solon Towne
Willis Guild
Charles Bell son
T.E. Palmer
Peter Loes
June 14, 2025 Alexander Thompson
Sarah Thompson
Berzilda Bradley
Lily Hawkinson
Frank R. Stribe
Frank Stribe
Ruth Stribe
Alvena (Ohrt) Stribe
Carl H. Voss
Grover Cleveland
Calista Heffelfinger
Aneta Hutchings
Ferdinand Blocker
Anna Cronin
Marie Bornhoft
Linda McCutcheon
June 12, 2025 Berma Jordan
Christian Larson
Peter Stouffer
Florence Bland
Ida Bland
June 7, 2025 Martha McCormick
Wilhelmina Murkle
Robert Ingledue
Mary (McCormack) Ingledue
John H. Ingledue
Lulu Shea
Janice Miskimins
Verna Stracke


When I get time I will add obituaries and memorial cards that I gather.
If you live in the Manning area and have OBs/Memorials please let me know.
If you live in another community and have obituaries/memorial cards of former Manning citizens and are interested in adding that information please contact me by e-mail.

We need your help!!
Please let me know if you find errors.
You may be working on your family genealogy and history and while searching the Internet for information you found my web page about Manning, Iowa, history.
If your family has roots in Manning and you find information on my web pages please E-mail Dave Kusel.
Presently we are working on a Manning school history book and you may have country or town school pictures or some other school information about a relative who lived here. This school book project will be finished in early 2010.
Then in mid 2010 we'll start on a Manning Veterans' history book.

If you have worked on genealogy for very long you know how much time and expense it takes. I am not charging for this information but please realize that if you help me in return with other Manning connected obituaries, pictures, and information, when combining our efforts, we will probably find even more people who can help both of us.

We also have a Manning History Book Committee that needs funds to continue doing research and we would appreciate donations which are tax deductable. E-mail Dave Kusel