1945 songs:
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Johnny Mercer
Frank Sinatra "You'll Never Walk Alone"
Perry Como "Till The End Of Time"
"Sentimental Journey" Harry James & Doris Day
The Andrew Sisters "Rum and Coca-Cola"
Woody Guthrie and Will Geer This Land Is Your Land"

At one time there were quite a few Ruhde family members living in Manning and now the name has all but disappeared from Manning's history...like so many other prominent names from the past.

Back: Dorothy, Hulda (Ohrt), Arlene
Front: Vergene, Harold
Marge not in picture - living in South Carolina

Vergene Hausman

Vergene M. Hausman, 95 of Halbur, Iowa, died Thursday, September 15, 2022, at St. Anthony Nursing Home in Carroll.

Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at St. Augustine Catholic Church - Good Shepherd Parish in Halbur. The Celebrant will be Fr. Terry Roder. Mass servers will be Jacob Hausman, Kalie Hausman, and Cyler Thelen. Music will be by Julie Sibbel and the St. Augustine Choir. Lector for the Funeral Mass will be Vergene's son-in-law, Glenn Williams. Gift Bearers will be Vergene's granddaughters Kacey Cook, Lindsey O'Dell, Mandy Boeckman, Kayla Kopska, Kimberly Mohr, Kara Nolting, Katie Hausman, Jackie Petersen, Jessica Scott, Jenna Hausman, and Jamie Hausman. Honorary casket bearers will be Vergene's grandsons Scott Halvorsen, Keith Halvorsen, and Steve Halvorsen. Casket bearers will be Vergene's grandsons Michael Williams, Kyle Williams, Ryan Onken, Matt Hausman, Torrence Mohr, and Tyler Petersen. Burial will be in St. Augustine Cemetery in Halbur.

Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll. A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Additional visitation will be from 9:30-10:15 a.m. on Wednesday at the church.

Funeral arrangements are under the guidance of the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll. Online condolences may be left for Vergene's family at www.sharpfuneral.com

Vergene, daughter of William H., Jr. and Hulda M. (Ohrt) Ruhde, was born on March 6, 1927, the youngest of five children. Her father died when Vergene was only two years old. She grew up in Manning, Iowa, and attended Manning High School. She married Louis "Speed" Hausman on April 14, 1945. Speed joined the U.S. Navy and Vergene joined him in San Diego, California, before he shipped out by bravely riding a train all the way.

Vergene and Speed raised six children in Arcadia, Iowa, during their 47-year marriage together where Speed was in the trucking business. They enjoyed being with friends and playing bingo almost every weekend. In 1975, they moved to Halbur, Iowa. In later years Vergene enjoyed working at several businesses in Halbur, retiring when she was 85.

She was a member of St. Augustine Parish in Halbur. She was also a member of the St. Augustine Ladies Guild.

Left to celebrate her life are her children, Barb (George) Halvorsen, Twin Creek, Arizona; Sue (Larry) Onken, Carroll, Iowa; Kate (Glenn) Williams, Geneseo, Illinois; Steve (Lisa) Hausman, Carroll; John (Julie) Hausman, Halbur, Iowa; Brian (Jean) Hausman, Arcadia, Iowa; as well as 18 grandchildren and 44 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren.

Vergene was preceded in death by her husband, Speed; sons-in-law George Halvorsen and Larry Onken; great-great-grandson Bryan Halvorsen; her parents; and her siblings Arlene Spack Jensen, Marjorie Loftus, Harold Rhude, and Dorothy Mae Wiese.

School notes

1945 MHS graduates: Ida Armstrong, Robert Barsby, Elmer Buschman, Clariss Christian, Donna Vee Dalgety, LaRue Dietz, Earl Fischer, Clarence Fox, Marilyn Grage, Jeanette Gruhn, Clark Hershman, Burton Hoffmann (salutatorian), Ellen Jensen, Jean Jensen, Lester Joens, Dorothy Kasperbauer, Verne Koch (valedictorian), Irma Kuhl, Bob McGrath, Don Mohr, Marjorie Mohr, Glen Mordhorst, Delores Nickum, Gladys Polzin, Donna Sander, Harold Schmidt, Russell Schroeder, Howard Schumann, Arden Smith, Leonard Stoberl, Jean Stuhr, Norma Suhr, Patricia Surridge, Lois Weems, Donald Weiskircher, Orrin Welch, Jack West, Donald Wiese

1945 former students: Bob Addison, Lyle Anthony, Gordon Boss, Viola Brandenburg, Wayne Davis, Delmas Hacker, Norma Hagedorn, Otto Harder, Harvey Hemminger, Elmer Hicks, Ronald Hobek, Ruth Kennedy, Helen Kleespies, Louise Kleespies, Grace Klyver, Bernice Lohmeier, Arlene Mastin, Donna McConnell, Waldo Puck, Vergene Ruhde, Donald Scanlan, Margie Schrum, Katherina Soppe, Robert Spangler, John Stangl, Kenten Williamson, Lucretia Wolfe

1931

Back: Harold Ruhde, Keith Wunder?, Willis Grimm, Dale Bingham, Wayne Barnes, Daryl Mohr
Front: Orlo Nissen, Bob Rostermundt, Jim Rowedder?, Milo Voss, Lyle Hoffmann?, Wayne Witt, Warren Petersen

These next 2 pictures were scanned and sent to me in 2005 by Joan Lagerlof. Sometime after 2007 I tried her e-mail address again, to see if I could get her to send me these and any other Manning/Ruhde/Claussen pictures she had so I could make higher resolution scans but without a working e-mail address for Joan I have no way to reach her.
Hopefully she is still alive and might read this message so I can get in contact with her again.

William & Johanna would be Vergene's great-grandparents

Arlene Ruhde

June (Jensen) & Harold Ruhde
On the Ohrt farm just across the RR tracks on the west side of West Street - now Nissen property.
June was the daughter of Mathias and Dessa (Kusel) Jensen

53 Ann Street where Harold, June and their two sons, Larry & Steve lived for many years.

Harold Ruhde boot camp, WWII

"Jimmie" Victor Frederick Richard Spack, Chuck Loftus, Marge (Ruhde) Loftus, Arlene (Ruhde) Spack

Harold Ruhde on the Ohrt farm

Harold Ruhde and Marian Ohrt in back with their homemade fiddles, with Shirley Ohrt in front - on the Ohrt farm
Marian married Marvin Petersen and Shirley married Virgil Reid (sons Brian & Barry)