Obit: Manicke, Stanley J. (1887 - 1959)

Contact:stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Manicke, Bogumill, Grueschow, Bohrman, Ronke, Geddes, Kowalefski

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark Co., Wis.)  05/07/1959

Manicke, Stanley J. (21 AUG 1887 - 21 APR 1959)

Last rites were held April 25 at 2:00 p.m. at the Wm. R. Hansen Funeral Home at Waukesha, Wis., for Stanley J. Manicke, 71, who passed away April 21, 1959 at his home in Hartland, Wis., of carcinoma of the sinuses.

Stanley Joseph Manicke was born in Wausau, Wis., on Aug. 21, 1887.  He came to Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.) in 1911 and served as assistant postmaster here until 1917 when he moved to Mosinee, Wis., and became employed as bank cashier.

He was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Bogumill at Thorp on Sept. 7, 1915.

He returned to Thorp about 1926 and became a partner in the Bogumill Farmers Store Co.  He sold his interest in the firm in 1948 and operated a grocery in Black River falls for three years before moving to Hartland in 1951.  Besides his other accomplishments, he was an expert cabinet maker and after his retirement as a designer for a firm in Milwaukee he devoted all of his time to that vocation in his own shop at Hartland.

He is survived by his wife Lucy, four sons, Stanley J. Manicke Jr. of Hartland, Paul of Waukesha, Daniel of Okauchee, Wis. and John of Milwaukee; five daughters, Marjorie, Mrs. Malcolm Grueschow, Thiensville, Wis., Lilian, Mrs. Robert Bohrman and Beverly, Mrs. Royal Ronke of Waukesha, Donna, Mrs. James Geddes and Miss Sandra Manicke of Hartland; four brothers, Frank and Walter of Wausau, Wis., John of Portland, Oregon and George Manicke of Chicago, and one sister, Mrs. Nettie Kowalefski of Wausau, Wis.

The deceased was a member of the Thorp Lodge No. 264 F. & A.M. of Thorp and the funeral services were performed by the Masonic Order of Hartland, Wis.  Interment was made in the Prairie Home Cemetery at Waukesha, Wis.