I've finished cleaning up some odds and ends scanning with the Fischer/Hansen collection from Larry Fischer.
Here are a few amazing scenes and images from the Fischer collection of Manning's past I scanned - especially with the historical instrumental aspects.

George Fischer - 1981 Manning Centennial King/Queen celebration at the Five Mile House
Reenactment of the Pete Kuhl band - note Bill Ranniger on drums


George Fischer posing next to the newly constructed Ohde Funeral Home


Back: George, Lucy Schelldorf, Eddie
Front: Henry and Anna (Jansen) Fischer
I'm looking for more information and pictures on the Schelldorf families in Manning...
...anyone who can help me please e-mail me.


1960 Larry, George Fischer & Hilda (Hansen), Doug


George Fischer in his Manning Motor work-clothes
George's grandson Andrew, Lillie Hansen - Doug on right (Children's Day 1980)


George & Eddie Fischer


Henry Fischer home in the country


Hansen side of the family {Hilda (Hansen) Fischer}

Peter Hansen - middle


102 East Street - built by Peter Hansen in 1927

Peter & Margaret (Sierks) Hansen family

Back: Anna, Amalia
Middle: Alma, Otto, Hugo
Front: Lillie


Alma, Hilda, Lillie


Lillie, Margaretha, Hilda - circa 1918

Audubon County, Lincoln Township, District No. 6

Lillie Hansen is the tall girl - Hilda is on Lillie's left side

This school disappeared when the town of Gray incorporated and built an independent school. Three students who attended No. 6 were Hilda & Lillie Hansen and Hugo Hansen. Information was provided by Hugo's son, Robert Hansen. No other information was found for this school.


More pix in the collection

Bud & Elsie McMahon 50th anniversary 1973

Peter Kuhl band

George Fischer, Pete Kuhl, Ed Callon, Bonita (Kuhl) Hagedorn - 1952

Pete Kuhl and his 7 Aces - now there's 9 of them

Standing: Bobby Messick, George Gordon
Seated: Eddie Fischer, Russ Wallace, Pete Kuhl, Earl Roberts, Louie Subbert, Leo Daeges, Don McNutt

Jolly Home Brewers

George Fischer 5th from left in front row


From Roger Ohde to Larry Fischer

Third Grade

Back: Darrel Wiese, Mike Spack, Larry Fischer, Bill Chandler, Diane Dammann, Donna Antone
Middle: Carolyn Pratt, Judy Laurinat, Sandra McGrath, Kay Hass, Pat Callender, Gary Gruhn, Gloria Popp
Front: Pat Oakley, Ann Blum, ?Wanda Domayer?, Gale Vinke, Bob Fischer, Vergene Reinke, Lois Zerwas

Need help with IDs above

Below is the list of students who either graduated or were with the class of 1963...It may help with a name for the ?? girl in the front row.
Remember that kids in the country would have attended country school and not town school during this time period.

1963 MHS graduates: Norma Jean Ahrendsen, Donna Lou Antone, Lyle Dean Bald, Ann Cheryl Blum, Patrick Lyn Callender, Kenard Lyn Carstens, William Parron Chandler III, Diane Caroline Dammann, Nancy Kay Dammann, Ann Detlefsen, Ralph E. Dobler, Larry Kenneth Ehlers, Rosemary Clara Ehrichs, Diane Mary Eischeid, Bruce Lyle Fischer, Larry George Fischer, Donna Faye Foley, Merlin Ivan Frahm, Marcia Faye Friedrichsen, Sue Marie Gaul, Frederick James Gruhn, Gary Max Gruhn, James W. Hansen, Joy E. Hansen, Richard Dwight Hill, Jane Marie Irlmeier, Curtis Dwayne Jansen, Duane H. Karsten, Patrick Louis Knueven, Eugene H. Mahnke, Kerry Orrin Martens, Donald Allen Mathisen, Sandra Marie McGrath, Jeanne L. Mundt, Julie L. Mundt, Charles Otto Nepple, Janet Louise Nulle (valedictorian), Patricia Kay Oakley, Wayne Carl Pfannkuch, David Allen Pfoltner, Gloria Jean Popp, Carolyn Marie Pratt, Vergene Lou Reinke, Wayne Raymond Ross, Diane Kay Rowedder, Stanley Jay Schrum, Kenneth E. Schrum, Annemarie Schwarz, David L. Souter, Kenneth Michael Spack, LaVern J. Spieker, Kenneth D. Spies, Betty Jean Swank, Gale Gilbert Vinke, Gene Kent Wycoff (salutatorian), Lois Jean Zerwas, Lyle E. Zinke, Kenneth E. Zubrod

1963 former students: Kathryn Asmus, Vicki Atkins, Carolyn Beese, Phillip Betts, David Bristol, Wanda Domayer, Michael Eich, Robert Fischer, Pamela Gauer, Shirley Gaul, Sigrid Grundmeier, Clara Hansen, Joyce Irlbeck, Kenneth Keat, Jr., Barbara Knight, Judith Laurinat, Pamela Loftus, Ronald Miller, Judith Schroeder, Roger Schroeder, Gale Segebart, Pamela Smith, Francis Steffes, Carolyn Ward, Pamela Weifenbach, Ardys White


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