Josiah H. Mannen


Funeral services for Josiah H. MANNEN will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at the Fry Funeral 
Home in Waltonville.  The Rev. Tracy DEES will officiate.  Burial will be in Knob Prairie 
Cemetery.  The body will lie in state at the Fry Funeral Home where friends may call at 
any time.  Mr. MANNEN, 51, of 2826 East 138th Place in Chicago, died at 2:00 p.m. 
Thursday in St. Catherine Hospital at East Chicago, Indiana, from injuries received in a 
fall at a construction job.

He was born September 17, 1913, at Waltonville, the son of Josiah and Cora (SADDLER) 
MANNEN.  On December 24, 1937, at Jackson, Missouri, he was married to Mary CHAPMAN, who 
survives.  He is also survived by two sons, Kenneth MANNEN, at home, and Jerry MANNEN, a 
senior at Atlantic Christian College at LaGrange, N.C.; two daughters, Terri Jo and 
Tamera Kay, both at home; two grandchildren; and two half-brothers, Hardy and Sebern 
MANNEN, both of Mt. Vernon.  Mr. MANNEN was preceded in death by his parents, two 
half-brothers, and two half-sisters.  During World War II he served with the Army 
Ordinance Corps.





Source: Mt. Vernon, IL Register News 
Date: Saturday, September 26, 1964
Submitted by: Mary Zinzilieta