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

September 29, 2025	Chris Johnson
October 7, 2025	Bertha Kuhl Edgar Oschner Bessie McDaniel Joe Sonksen infant Herman Nissen Alfred Starek Robert Starek
September 29, 2025	Dorothy Anderson Clarence Scanlan Amalia Lehmberg Fred Lehmberg Inez Hagedorn Edward Lehmberg
September 27, 2025	Emma Campbell Alexander Campbell Alice Campbell Frank Algren Emma Algren
September 24, 2025	Esther Bonneson Alton Bonneson Gerald Bonneson Jack Wailes Hannah Wailes Janet McGrath
September 22, 2025	Cathrina Claussen August Claussen Lillian Claussen Florence Diels
September 19, 2025	Lucie Fischer (updated) Wilhelmina Fischer Charles Paulsen Winfred Newell Samuel J. Newell Samuel E. Newell Clara Newell
July 8, 2025	Henry Kuhse Lester Kuhse Henrietta Carlson Elsie Johnson Dorothy Merkel Charles Merkel Johannes Kollmetz Helen Hagedorn
September 2, 2025	Richard Ohm Mrs. Louie Heckman Elvin Laurinat William Laurinat Louise Laurinat Lucinda Robinson
August 28, 2025	Thomas Shields Jackie Borkowski Myra Hamann Rosemary Gleason

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