Note: down below is a letter written by Herbert Blair which mentions Roy Lawbaugh.

Roy E. Lawbaugh


Roy joined the U.S. Army in 1917, one month before high school graduation in Manning. He was stationed at Fort Logan, Colorado. After WWI he returned to Manning and married Ione Reynolds, a school teacher in Manning.

Departure September 7, 1917 at Syracuse, New York
Rank Corporal
Unit Company G, 23rd Infantry
Departure March 5, 1919, at Brest, France
Arrival 1919, at Newport News, Virginia, on the U.S.S. South Carolina (BB-26)
Unit 23rd Infantry, St. Aignan, Casual Company 958 (Illinois)
Rank Sergeant
Service Number 50869


Mr. and Mrs. Lawbaugh received a telegram Tuesday stating that their son, Roy E. Lawbaugh, had safely arrived from overseas and would soon be back to Manning again.
This young man was among those who were the first to enlist from Manning. He has been in the service since April 13, 1917, being in Europe since September 4 1917, and fought in all the big battles in which our forces were engaged.
Being gassed he was for a period in the hospital. Honor also came to him, having during the war been promoted to the position of Sergeant.
Manning Monitor March 1919

Roy married Ione Reynolds.
Ione was a school teacher in Manning. She taught Jr. High English and was Art & Ila Rix's teacher

Information provided by Roger Markley.

"Roy E. Lawbaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hale Lawbaugh, was born at Madrid, Iowa, July 16, 1898. When 6 years old he entered the public schools at Madrid. A year later he entered the Manning schools when his parents moved here, and was regular in attendance till he left school about a month before graduation to join the colors and become a soldier in the U. S. Army.
His chief delight in school was to study hard, and he took great intrest in physics and economics.
As soon as the war is over and he returns home he expects to enter college and take a professional course."
Manning Monitor 1917.

In a letter from one of Manning's boys to his parents and printed in the paper," Blair and Laubaugh, (had been at Fort Logan Colorado, near Denver?)went to the border..."

Bessie Dunnick's Book .... 1923, "Roy Lawbaugh is taking a course at the Iowa State college."

If Roger Markley or someone who is in contact with him reads this - PLEASE e-mail me.
Thanks - Dave Kusel


Roy's parents
Morris H. & Damia Lawbaugh are buried in the Manning Cemetery.
Section D Row #18 south - north.

Morris Lawbaugh was the Milwaukee Railroad Depot Agent on the north edge of Manning.

Letter written by Herbert Blair which mentions Roy Lawbaugh----

May 10, 1917 Manning Monitor
HERBERT BLAIR WRITES
El Paso, Texas, April 30, 1917.
Dear Mr. Mantz:
I am located at El Paso, Texas, just six miles from the Mexican border and we are receiving very good drill.
The five of us boys that left were certainly scattered out right. Don Branson had to stay at Ft. Logan in the hospital corps. Arnold Foster and Ed Gronert were shipped to California and Roy Lawbaugh and myself are in Texas.
I am glad that the boys of Manning turned out so well. It ranks first at Ft. Logan, for the number of recruits from a town of its size.
My main reason for writing was to get you to send me the Monitor here. To have that would almost bring the town of Manning here into Texas.
We are now drilling too much to allow anyone to become lonesome, yet the paper would help out on some of these quiet evenings.
If anyone should ask you tell them that I am very glad I joined the army and that I have a very good chance for promotion.
Respectfully yours,
Herbert Blair, Fourth Field Artillery, El Paso, Texas.


Manning Relatives at Funeral Services For Roy Emanuel Lawbaugh

Manning relatives attended funeral services for a former Manning resident, Roy Emanuel Lawbaugh, at Arlington Heights, Illinois. Mr. Lawbaugh was graduated from the Manning School in 1917. His father was Milwaukee station agent here for many years.

He was born in Madrid, Iowa in 1899. After his marriage to Ione Reynolds June 10, 1924, at Sheffield, the couple lived in Evanston, Illinois. They moved from there to Elgin, later to Chicago. For the past 16 years they have lived in Arlington, Heights.

Mr. Lawbaugh was a Veteran of World War I.

He had been an employee of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company for the last 24 years. He was an active member of the Methodist Church in Arlington Heights.

Mr. Lawbaugh died suddenly Saturday afternoon, April 12, 1947, at his home at the age of 48 years.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ione Lawbaugh of Arlington Heights, one daughter, Laurel, who is attending Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin; one son, Roger; his mother, Mrs. Damia Lawbaugh of Templeton, Iowa; his grandmother, Mrs. Pentico of Wood Dale, Illinois; and two sisters, Eva (Mrs. Emil) Feldman, Manning; and Louise (Mrs. Herman) Lohmann, Templeton, Iowa.

Services were held at Karstens Fairbanks Chapel at 2:30 p.m., April 15, with the Rev. Milo J. Vondareck officiating. Internment was at Euclid Lawn Cemetery, Arlington Heights.