Inez Gertrude Groth Manley 1910 - 2006

GROTH, MANLEY, FRANZEN, FLYNN

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Date: 1/15/2023 at 20:15:28

Sioux City Journal
16 April 2006

ANTHON, Iowa - Inez Groth Manley, 95, of Anthon died Tuesday, April 11, 2006, at Correctionville (Iowa) Nursing and Rehab Center.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Anthon, with the Rev. Terry Roder officiating. Burial will be in Mount St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Anthon. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a Catholic Daughters rosary at 4 p.m. and a vigil wake service at 7 p.m., at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Armstrong Funeral Home in Anthon.

Inez Gertrude Groth Manley was born Oct. 20, 1910, in Arlington Township, rural Moville, Iowa, the daughter of John and Mary (Flynn) Franzen. She moved with her family to their home west of Correctionville, where she attended school and played on the basketball team. She graduated from Correctionville High School with the class of 1928. She continued her education by completing the Normal Training Course and teaching one year.

Inez married Elmer Henry Groth on April 27, 1929, in Holstein, Iowa. The couple farmed near Cushing, Iowa, then north of Climbing Hill, Iowa. In 1961, they moved to Anthon. Elmer died Nov. 10, 1975.

She married Bernard F. Manley June 6, 1981, in Anthon. They were to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary this June.

Inez was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Anthon for more than 83 years. She was a member of the St. Joseph Altar Society, Catholic Daughters of America and American Legion Auxiliary McNiff Unit No. 389.

In raising her family, Inez was a 4-H mother, supporting her children in their 4-H activities. She loved baking, cooking, playing cards, square dancing and talking on the telephone. She wintered in Texas for some 40 years. Having always been family oriented, Inez found great pleasure in the activities of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She belonged to 'The Grandma Club," which included four ladies, who for 40 years, gathered and shared in each other's lives and families.

Survivors include her husband, Bernie of Anthon; five sons and their wives, Leo and CoeLeta Groth of Moville, Iowa, Lyle and JoAnn Groth of Climbing Hill, LaVere and Macel Groth of Kansas City, Kan., John and Bernice Lea Groth of Spearville, Kan., and Mark and Ruth Groth of Anthon; a daughter and her husband, LaDonna and Allen Peters of Osakis, Minn.; four stepsons and their wives, Bill and Vera Manley of Akron, Iowa, Jack and Pat Manley of Littleton, Colo., Gene and Carol Manley of South Sioux City, and Don and Jeanette Manley of Ralston, Neb.; a step-daughter, Mary Frances Manley of Sioux City; 19 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; 19 step-grandchildren; 35 great-step-grandchildren; four great-great-step-grandchildren; three brothers-in-law, Don Ludvigson, Alfred Groth and LaVern Groth; and two sisters-in-law, Geneva Bremer and Wilma Groth; and many nieces and nephews.

Along with her first husband, Elmer, Inez was preceded in death by her parents; a grandson, Curtis Groth; a great-granddaughter, McKenzie Inez Peters; two sisters, Alice Camarigg and Madge Waggoner; and an infant brother, Bernard.