In Memory Of LOUIS RANNIGER

Born April 6, 1888 Washington Township, Carroll County, Iowa
Entered Into Rest April 5, 1961, Maiming General Hospital
Age 72 years, 11 months, 29 days
Services Held At Zion Lutheran Church Friday, April 7, 1961, 2 P.M.
Clergyman Rev. George B. Eschenbacher Pastor Zion Lutheran Church
Interment Manning Cemetery
Pallbearers: Walter Ossenkop, John Derner, W.J. Kruse, C.H. Jahn, Herman Lage, John Rowedder

Fellowship lunch for friends and relatives will be served at the Zion Lutheran Church basement following committal services.

LOUIS RANNIGER
Louis Ranniger, Manning, died Wednesday morning, April 5, 1961, one day short of 73 years of age. His death occurred at the Manning General Hospital, where he had been a patient since he underwent surgery in January. He was a farmer in the Manning vicinity until his retirement to town in 1946.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 7, at Zion Lutheran Church, conducted by Pastor George B. Eschenbacher, pastor. Pallbearers will be Carsten H. Jahn, Herman Lage, John Rowedder, Walter Ossenkop, John Derner, and William J. Kruse. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery. The body will be taken to the church at 12:30.

Surviving is his wife; the children: Wilmer, Mrs. Harry Jansen (Irene), Mrs. Raymond Friedrichsen (Eunice), and Wayne; three sisters: Mrs. Clyde Farrell (Anna), Mrs. Minnie Gruhn of Manilla, and Mrs. Louie Koester (Leona) of Albert Lea, Minnesota; 16 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother in infancy; a brother Julius, and a half-sister, Mrs. William Nagel.

Mr. Ranniger was born April 6, 1888, in Washington Township, a son of William Ranniger and Margaret Hendrich. When he was a child, the family moved to a farm one mile north of Aspinwall in Crawford County, and he attended rural and Aspinwall schools.

He was married January 7, 1914, at Denison to Christine Lorenzen. They were on the family farm 10 years and then moved to their farm northwest of Manning in in Hayes Township, where they lived 22 years before they retired to Manning.

He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church. One of the highlights of his life was the trip to Europe he and Mrs. Ranniger took in 1954. He had been ill since last fall.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, April 6, 1961

Louis Ranniger
Funeral services for Louis Ranniger, 73, Manning farmer, were held Friday at Zion Lutheran Church, with burial in the Manning Cemetery.

Mr. Ranniger, who retired in 1946, died at Manning General Hospital Wednesday, after undergoing surgery in late January.

He had lived in this area all his life He is survived by his widow; two sons, Wayne and Wilmer and daughters, Mrs. Harry Jansen and Mrs. Ray Friedrichsen, all of Manning; 16 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren and three sisters.
Daily Nonpareil, April 7, 1961

Louis Ranniger is buried in the Manning City Cemetery.
Section F Row #9 north - south.