Burial was in Oakley Cemetery under direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Winnsboro.
Officials found the young woman's body Tuesday in a ditch near the Amite River near the St. Helena-East Baton Rouge Parish line. She had been reported missing early Monday morning by her father.
Sheriff R. D. Bridges said she had been shot three times in the chest.
Miss McManus lived in Baton Rouge and was employed at Baton Rouge General Hospital. She had also been employed in the office of State Supt. of Education Bill Dodd in Baton Rouge and worked in Monroe for a while.
She graduated from Gilbert High School in 1966 and attended Louisiana College.
She is survived, in addition to her parents, by one brother, Donald Roy McManus of Gilbert;
Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Thursday, April 16, 1970
Burial was in Oakley Cemetery under direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Winnsboro.
Officials found the young woman's body Tuesday in a ditch near the Amite River near the St. Helena-East Baton Rouge Parish line. She had been reported missing early Monday morning by her father.
Sheriff R. D. Bridges said she had been shot three times in the chest.
Miss McManus lived in Baton Rouge and was employed at Baton Rouge General Hospital. She had also been employed in the office of State Supt. of Education Bill Dodd in Baton Rouge and worked in Monroe for a while.
She graduated from Gilbert High School in 1966 and attended Louisiana College.
She is survived, in addition to her parents, by one brother, Donald Roy McManus of Gilbert;
Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Thursday, April 16, 1970
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