James Manning (1870 - 1945)

MANNING, CALVEY, STEFFEN

Posted By: M. J. Fitzgerald (email)
Date: 10/11/2009 at 18:27:21

James Manning died October 13, 1945, in Milwaukee, WI. Obituary in the October 17, 1945, edition of the Allamakee Journal reads:

Obituary – James Manning

Funeral services were held at Immaculate Conception Church, Wexford Tuesday morning for James Manning who passed away Saturday, Oct. 13th, at the Deaconess Hospital, Milwaukee, Wis., following a couple of months illness. Father John Costelloe of Paint Rock offered the Mass of Requiem and said the final prayers at the graveside. Burial was in the cemetery adjoining the church and pall bearers were George Hall, John Arnold, John Haas and James Baxter of Waukon, Mike C. Mullarkey and James Mooney of Lansing.

The above named gentleman was born in Lafayette township March 1, 1870, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Manning, early day pioneers of that vicinity and one of eleven children. Following his education in the rural school of that time, on Nov. 6th, 1906, at Harpers Ferry, he married Miss Anna Calvey, who preceded him in death March 17, 1941. They were the parents of three children, Frank of Madison, Wis., Mrs. Mary Steffen and Vincent of Milwaukee, Wis., who mourn the loss of a kind and indulgent father. Other immediate survivors include his only sister, Mrs. Julia Brennan of La Crosse, and a number of nieces and nephew. The remains arrived on the afternoon train Monday and were waked at the Gene Brennan home in Lansing where many former neighbors and old time friends called that evening to pay their final regrets and extend sympathy to the bereaved family.

Mr. Manning was a progressive farmer and stock raiser most of his years in Allamakee, moving to Lansing in 1914 where he operated a livery barn for a number of years as well as buying stock. They moved to Waukon in 1922 where he operated a dairy farm for many years on the outskirts of town, leaving there to go to Milwaukee to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Steffen in the year 1941 following the death of his wife. He was of a jovial disposition and during his long residence in Allamakee formed a wide circle of acquaintances who will read with regret of his death. He was a lifelong Catholic and a member of St. Veronica’s church in Milwaukee.

The funeral services were largely attended. Among those relatives from out of town being: Mr. and Mrs. C. Steffen, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Manning, Madison, Wis.; Mrs. Julia Brennan and son James and the latter’s daughter, Marie of La Crosse, besides a host of friends and acquaintances from Waukon and Lansing. His son Vincent was unable to be here because of illness.