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

May 25, 2026	Helen Guild Joseph Robinson Henry Torpy Mary Torpy
May 20, 2026	Harold Wilson Orlando Manning Mabel Kyrk Grace Bullivant Maria Hoffmann Peter Vehrs
May 18, 2026	Ferne Wagner Bertha Sanders George Blumenstein Ella Blumenstein Marian Joens Samuel E. Daughenbaugh Louis Stanton Frank Stanton Loal Stanton
May 17, 2026	August Rudnick Olga Kraft Hans Schroeder Mary Vollmer LaVerne Vollmer William Sprinkle Elsie (Sprinkel) Schroeder Harold Sprinkel Mary Sprinkel Sylvia Sprinkle Fritz Kollmetz Elizabeth Grantz John Grantz John Gloe Henry Starck Herman Starck
May 10, 2026	Louis Ohm Mary Ohm Lulu Brockschrink James McConnell
May 8, 2026	Bernhard Martens Hinrich Clasen Harry & Clara Darr Theresa Rix LeRoy Rix Clarence Rix Waldo Hoffmann
May 7, 2026	Pearl West John Thornton Alexander Campbell Victor Mantz Paul Jentsch Melitta Mohr Ellinora Kempf Eunice Lohmeier
May 4, 2026	Walter Grau Walter P. Grau Henry Graves Harry Precht Frederich Precht Louis Precht

Notice to the so-called genealogists/historians.
If you want to copy this or any other obituary on my webpages for your own personal use - that is perfectly fine...
But, if you plan on posting them on other websites, especially the commercial/ancestry sites - DO NOT!
I spend tens of thousands of dollars of my own money to preserve the Manning area history, and now have a large commercial scanner so I can scan the pages of the Manning Monitor in one-pass.
So you and those other websites can buy your own equipment and spend your time to do the work - then you'll find out how much work I do to save our area history.
Below is an actual scanned clipping from the Monitor.

So don't be tacky and STEAL my work!

March 9, 1950, Manning Monitor

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

Below you see an aerial view of the Manning Cemetery.

Each section is marked A, B, etc and the rows start in the North East corner of that section going north to south and the next row going south to north. You'll notice the Lutheran church just north of the cemetery and Center street just west of the cemetery.

Below you see an aerial view of the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Manning.

Each section is marked A, B & C and the rows start in the North East corner of that section going north to south and the next row going south to north.