Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Dr. W. T. MANNING

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Dr. W. T. MANNING

OCNS - September 7, 2001 - Dr. W.T. Manning, 86, passed away Wednesday, 
September 5, in the Jane Phillips Medical Center, Bartlesville.

Wesley Thacker Manning was born, July 27, 19515 in Danville, Arkansas, the 
son of Grover E. and Fannie (Thacker) Manning. He attended high school in 
Amber, Oklahoma, and graduated in 1939 from Central State Teacher's 
College in Edmond, Oklahoma.

During World War II, he was a Lieutenant in the Naval Air Corps, stationed 
at Cabiness Field in Corpus Christi, Texas. In June of 1949, he graduated 
from the University of Oklahoma medical School (Norman, Oklahoma) and 
interned at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City before beginning his medical 
practice on July 1, 1951, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, where he was active until 
his death.

Dr. Manning was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the American 
Academy of Family Physicians, the Osage County medical Association and the 
Osage County Cattlemen's Association. He was a lifetime member of the 
American Medical Association, and also served as District Representative 
for the Boy Scouts of America in 1964-1968.

Survivors are: His wife, Dorothy Jane Manning of Pawhuska, Oklahoma; two 
sons, John Manning and wife, Carrie, of Pawhuska, and Alan Manning of 
Tulsa; one brother, Jefferson W. Manning of Bakersfield, California; one 
sister, Geraldine Higgins of El Reno, Oklahoma; seven grandchildren, John 
T. , Mark, Ali, Abbey, Ambra, Jacob and Blake and a host of other 
relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, September 8, in the 
Johnson Funeral Home Chapel, Pawhuska with interment in the Pawhuska City 
Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to the First 
Presbyterian Church or to the Presbyterian Boy's Home, P. O. Box 1056, 
Hugo, OK 74743-1056

Johnson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.