Doris Maxine Manning, age 90, Noel, MO died Monday, March 17, 2014 at Manor Care Assisted Living Facility in Springfield, MO where she had been living for the past three years to be near her family.
Doris was born July 20, 1923 to John Clifford and Virgie ( Benschoter) Manning and lived nearly her entire life on the Manning farm near Noel. She attended Noel School and graduated with the class of 1941. She was employed by the Gravette Medical Center in Gravette, AR working in the Laboratory and Surgery Depts., retiring from there after working many years. After retirement she worked for the Mc Donald County, MO Senior Center at Lanagin and then in Noel helping to prepare meals for Seniors and Homebound.
Doris was a member and regularly attended the Honeylake Community Church.
She enjoyed cake decorating for special occasions, quilting and making rag rugs.
She was an avid reader, enjoying fictional books and always reading every snippet in newspapers and magazines. She spent much of her time writing stories and anecdotes that told about the lives of different family members and relatives and activities that she experienced growing up on a farm in rural Missouri. She loved the outdoors and everything that involved life on a farm. She was very interested in genealogy and the history of the Manning family. She spent much time researching, recording and then sharing this information of connection with her relatives. It was her desire to preserve this information for future generations.
She was extremely interested in the development and expansion of the McDonald County Museum in Pineville, MO. She and her brother, Cordell, donated many items from their farm of interest to museum visitors.
She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant sister, Jean Manning of Noel, MO, and her brother, Alton Cordell Manning of Springfield, MO. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Elizabeth M. Manning of Springfield. Her extended family, Lynn and Beverly Kelley, their Children and Grandchildren were very dear to her. Many Manning and Benschoter cousins, too numerous to list, mourn her passing.
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Additional info kindly provided by contributor Margaret Pickett
Doris was born July 20, 1923 to John Clifford and Virgie ( Benschoter) Manning and lived nearly her entire life on the Manning farm near Noel. She attended Noel School and graduated with the class of 1941. She was employed by the Gravette Medical Center in Gravette, AR working in the Laboratory and Surgery Depts., retiring from there after working many years. After retirement she worked for the Mc Donald County, MO Senior Center at Lanagin and then in Noel helping to prepare meals for Seniors and Homebound.
Doris was a member and regularly attended the Honeylake Community Church.
She enjoyed cake decorating for special occasions, quilting and making rag rugs.
She was an avid reader, enjoying fictional books and always reading every snippet in newspapers and magazines. She spent much of her time writing stories and anecdotes that told about the lives of different family members and relatives and activities that she experienced growing up on a farm in rural Missouri. She loved the outdoors and everything that involved life on a farm. She was very interested in genealogy and the history of the Manning family. She spent much time researching, recording and then sharing this information of connection with her relatives. It was her desire to preserve this information for future generations.
She was extremely interested in the development and expansion of the McDonald County Museum in Pineville, MO. She and her brother, Cordell, donated many items from their farm of interest to museum visitors.
She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant sister, Jean Manning of Noel, MO, and her brother, Alton Cordell Manning of Springfield, MO. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Elizabeth M. Manning of Springfield. Her extended family, Lynn and Beverly Kelley, their Children and Grandchildren were very dear to her. Many Manning and Benschoter cousins, too numerous to list, mourn her passing.
Permission of the Ozark Funeral Home, Anderson, MO
Additional info kindly provided by contributor Margaret Pickett
Doris Maxine Manning, age 90, Noel, MO died Monday, March 17, 2014 at Manor Care Assisted Living Facility in Springfield, MO where she had been living for the past three years to be near her family.
Doris was born July 20, 1923 to John Clifford and Virgie ( Benschoter) Manning and lived nearly her entire life on the Manning farm near Noel. She attended Noel School and graduated with the class of 1941. She was employed by the Gravette Medical Center in Gravette, AR working in the Laboratory and Surgery Depts., retiring from there after working many years. After retirement she worked for the Mc Donald County, MO Senior Center at Lanagin and then in Noel helping to prepare meals for Seniors and Homebound.
Doris was a member and regularly attended the Honeylake Community Church.
She enjoyed cake decorating for special occasions, quilting and making rag rugs.
She was an avid reader, enjoying fictional books and always reading every snippet in newspapers and magazines. She spent much of her time writing stories and anecdotes that told about the lives of different family members and relatives and activities that she experienced growing up on a farm in rural Missouri. She loved the outdoors and everything that involved life on a farm. She was very interested in genealogy and the history of the Manning family. She spent much time researching, recording and then sharing this information of connection with her relatives. It was her desire to preserve this information for future generations.
She was extremely interested in the development and expansion of the McDonald County Museum in Pineville, MO. She and her brother, Cordell, donated many items from their farm of interest to museum visitors.
She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant sister, Jean Manning of Noel, MO, and her brother, Alton Cordell Manning of Springfield, MO. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Elizabeth M. Manning of Springfield. Her extended family, Lynn and Beverly Kelley, their Children and Grandchildren were very dear to her. Many Manning and Benschoter cousins, too numerous to list, mourn her passing.
Permission of the Ozark Funeral Home, Anderson, MO
Additional info kindly provided by contributor Margaret Pickett
Doris was born July 20, 1923 to John Clifford and Virgie ( Benschoter) Manning and lived nearly her entire life on the Manning farm near Noel. She attended Noel School and graduated with the class of 1941. She was employed by the Gravette Medical Center in Gravette, AR working in the Laboratory and Surgery Depts., retiring from there after working many years. After retirement she worked for the Mc Donald County, MO Senior Center at Lanagin and then in Noel helping to prepare meals for Seniors and Homebound.
Doris was a member and regularly attended the Honeylake Community Church.
She enjoyed cake decorating for special occasions, quilting and making rag rugs.
She was an avid reader, enjoying fictional books and always reading every snippet in newspapers and magazines. She spent much of her time writing stories and anecdotes that told about the lives of different family members and relatives and activities that she experienced growing up on a farm in rural Missouri. She loved the outdoors and everything that involved life on a farm. She was very interested in genealogy and the history of the Manning family. She spent much time researching, recording and then sharing this information of connection with her relatives. It was her desire to preserve this information for future generations.
She was extremely interested in the development and expansion of the McDonald County Museum in Pineville, MO. She and her brother, Cordell, donated many items from their farm of interest to museum visitors.
She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant sister, Jean Manning of Noel, MO, and her brother, Alton Cordell Manning of Springfield, MO. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Elizabeth M. Manning of Springfield. Her extended family, Lynn and Beverly Kelley, their Children and Grandchildren were very dear to her. Many Manning and Benschoter cousins, too numerous to list, mourn her passing.
Permission of the Ozark Funeral Home, Anderson, MO
Additional info kindly provided by contributor Margaret Pickett
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