Occasionally people will ask why I'm so interested in getting their and other people's old collections of pictures and history to scan...my response to them is
that they probably have some pictures and/or information about one of my relatives. Very often, while going through people's family collections/scrapbooks
I'll find pictures and information about one or more of my relatives.
The reason being, that years ago, neighbors, friends, and distant relatives shared
pictures with a lot of other people who they knew and lived in the Manning area.
Also, since all of the branches of my family were part of the Pioneer community
that settled this area between 1873 through the early 1890s, so my relatives interacted with a lot of the other old-time and Pioneer families of this area.
So if you have old Manning area pictures and old family collections, PLEASE contact me so I can add your collection to the ever-growing, one-of-a-kind, and unique
community history I'm building for Manning and the surrounding area.
Down below, my aunt Shirley (Ehrichs) Schramm taught some of the Weller kids and is what I write about above for having lots of connections to the area history.
Hayes No. 7 country school
Page 88 of the Manning Schools history book
Back: Anna Ohde, Emma Frahm, Mrs. Henry Frahm? or possibly Helen Ploog, ?unknown?, Elsie Schroeder, Laura Kruse?,
?unknown?, Hilda (Goettsch) Weller?
Front: Stella Jahn?, ?unknown?, ?unknown?, Clara Schroeder, Christine Ranniger, Etta Ossenkop, Ella Rowedder
May 12, 1946, picnic lunch crew. Back: Luella Mahnke,
Hilda Weller, Bernice Mohns,
Leona Beermann, hidden Eunice Friedrichsen who is holding one year old Marcia Friedrichsen, Ella Rowedder, Norma Frahm, Clara Ehrichs
Front: Shirley Ehrichs, Willetta Sander, Luella Brus, Minnie ?possibly Searing sp?
May 12, 1946. Back: Fern Weller,
Joan Rowedder, Lyle Meyer, Charles Beermann, Shirley Ehrichs
Middle: Wayne Jahn, Betty Beermann, Shannon Mahnke, Arlene Mohns, Mardella Friedrichsen, Corrine Sander, Adlyn Beermann, Edwin Beermann
Front: Kenneth Frahm, Cleo Weller, Marlys Sander
Shirley (Ehrichs) Schramm - Hayes No. 2 teacher
Helen (Wegner) Petersen
Helen Wegner attended country school at Iowa Township No. 8 and graduated from Manning High School in 1929.
Helen taught in rural schools for several years. In 1939 she started teaching at the Aspinwall Independent School with Delpha Olsen. Delpha was in the upper room
and Helen in the lower room. Some of Helen's students were Joe Brandt, Roy Schilling, Leroy Dammann, Wallace Schroeder, Gene Ehrichs, Gene Kuhl and Edwin Philips.
In 1944, Helen was a substitute teacher at Hayes No. 7, located four miles north and one mile east of Aspinwall. Some of her students were Kenneth Frahm, Mardella
Friedrichsen, Arlene Mohr, Shannon Mahnke, Wayne Jahn, Joan Rowedder, Cleo & Fern Weller, and Lowell and Loren Weller.
Helen married William Petersen in 1942 and they have one daughter, Kay, who graduated from MHS in 1967. Kay married Terry Odgen (divorced) and
they have two children, T.J. and Katie. Kay and her husband Bill Kiser currently live in Denver, Colorado.
Bill attended country school, and in 1942 he was inducted into the U.S. Army and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. After WWII he worked for
Dultmeier Manufacturing and later was a mail carrier.
Helen also worked for Eddie Johnson's dry goods store for several years.
Helen was a resident of the Manning Plaza and passed away in February of 2009; she was 97 years old.