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    1. [IDFranklin] Harold Quinten Manwaring (1908-2002) obit
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Manwaring, Kilgore, Comish Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Eg.2ADE/598 Message Board Post: The Herald Journal, 10/15/02 LODI, Calif. — Harold Quinten Manwaring, 84, passed away Sunday, Oct. 13, 2002, at his home in Lodi with his family around him. He was born Oct. 5, 1918, in New York City, the son of Francis Earl and Emma Madeline Kilgore Manwaring. His family moved to upstate New York when he was 14 years old. Some of his fondest memories were in a small, rural town in Penn Yan, NY. At the age of 21, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy on March 13, 1940. He was assigned to the destroyer USS Benson. He was on the Benson for two and a half years and then was assigned to the Air Craft Carrier USS Essex just after it was commissioned and served aboard three years. He served in the Coast Guard for two years while stationed in Long Beach, Calif. He was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was an avid reader and was a lover of opera and Celtic music. He met his wife, Verleen Comish, in Los Angeles, Calif. They were married in the St. George LDS Temple on Nov. 22, 1949. They lived in Seattle, Wash., for seven years, then moved to Lodi in 1959. While in Seattle working for Boeing, he wrote test documents for component parts for the B-52. He was also a draftsman at Supermold in Lodi and worked for B&J Engineering and for the City of Lodi. He retired from the Lodi Unified School District. He is survived by his wife, Verleen, of Lodi; two sons, David Manwaring, Hollister, Calif., and Alan Manwaring, Calif.; a daughter, Kathleen Uribe, Lodi; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002, at 3 p.m. in the Lodi Stake Center, 1510 Century Blvd, Lodi. A visitation will be held on Wednesday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the church. Graveside services will be held on Saturday at 3 p.m. in the Franklin, Idaho Cemetery. He will be buried among the pioneer relatives of his wife. Services are under the direction of Webb Funeral Home.

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