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Arlene Manning
Arlene Manning
June 21, 1928 - August 21, 2009
Maquoketa, Iowa

Visitation: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Monday August 24, 2009 at Lahey Funeral Home, Maquoketa ~ Memorials are preferred
Funeral Service: 2:00 p.m. Monday, August 24, 2009 at Lahey Funeral Home, Maquoketa
Interment: Monday, August 24, 2009 at Union Cemetery, rural Maquoketa, Iowa

Arlene Davenport was born June 21, 1928, in Maquoketa, Iowa, the daughter of Glenn and Myrtha (Tubbs) Davenport. She graduated from Maquoketa High School. She married Loyd L. Manning on March 13, 1944 in Clinton, Iowa. He died on April 3, 1996. She retired from Clinton Engines and HOOF Products in Maquoketa. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Maquoketa. She loved her home, flower garden and yard. Her grandchildren were very special to her.

Arlene is survived by her children; James Lee (Vicki) Manning and John Allen Manning, both of Maquoketa, and Clayton Clyde (Jan) Manning of Newton; 9 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren; & an adopted brother, Robert Davenport-Mueller of Harleyville, S.C. She was preceded in death by her husband, one daughter, Myrna, her parents, one grandson, two great-grandchildren, one sister and three brothers.

Arlene Manning, 81, of Maquoketa, Iowa, died Friday, August 21, 2009, at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City.

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